A year on from that surgery, Natalie still deals with lots of symptoms.

For the most part, I'm doing pretty good now.

I'm still on a mostly liquid diet, but that's because my intestines don't want to play ball.

That's something that surgery does.

can't fix.

Natalie says she can't seem to get any help from the public sector so has to pay for all her treatments privately and this can run into the thousands.

My bowels don't work so I'm doing colonic hydrotherapy privately because it's the only option because I can't do any testing or treatment in the public system because I can't even see the doctors.

Natalie says this doesn't apply to her

I'm not afraid of that.

If anything, I felt like dealing with all of my mental health issues because I have, I have dealt with them.

I've worked through the therapies.

I have done it.

My mental health is now really good.

So at that time, I was like, "You, you can't try and blame it on my mental health, guys.

She goes directly from the hospital straight to the airport and flies to Spain.