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ME sufferer walks for first time in 10 years at wedding

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A heartwarming video has emerged of ME sufferer Jessica Taylor dancing with her husband Samuel Bearman at their wedding after she was bedridden for ten years.

Jessica Taylor was diagnosed with Myalgic Encephalomyelitis, also known as Chronic fatigue syndrome, at the age of fifteen and was hospitalised from 2006 to 2010.

"On Saturday 29th April 2017 Jessica after over a years physiotherapy to learn to walk again and build up her strength and muscles she completed her goal to walk down the aisle to me," Samuel Bearman wrote online.

"Over a week has passed now and Jessica is slowly recovering," he added.

After being bedridden for years, unable to move, Jessica Taylor discovered she could paint by laughing while balancing a paintbrush in her hand.

She called the new for of art "laugh-o-gram" and was exhibited in the Canterbury Art Festival 2009.

The following year, she founded the charity 'Share a Star' which assists severely unwell children and teenagers.

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