Presenting at an international paramedics forum, Claire put in her own symptoms, age and sex for a scenario featuring an imaginary patient.

There was over a dozen responses from people in the UK and the US saying, that's a very typical POTS presentation.

What have you missed out? What have you left out? And I was like, what the hell is POTS? So I googled and then, you know, went through and I could tick, tick, tick, tick all the boxes.

Claire would take her concerns to her specialist who had performed a suite of tests.

they all came back saying, there's nothing wrong.

And I said, well, could it be POTS? And the cardiologist and endocrinologist both said, oh no, that happens to teenage girls.

And I said, are you sure? Because I've had a look and I've got all the symptoms.

And at that time, like I literally was not functioning at all.

Tell us the story of Cece.

All right, so I was a forces brat brought up in the RAF, so moved from pillar to post, went to boarding school.

So the reason I go so far back is because I'm just painting a picture of a very independent little poppet and then went overseas to work and kind of didn't really know what I wanted to do but did a lot.

Was working in sales, got a bit bored with that, but kicking really high goals.

So then went off to Thailand, became a scuba diving instructor, which was phenomenal.

And then arrived in Australia, met my partner of 23 years now on the first day that I arrived.

Wow.

Wow.