Hugs were too painful for ME patient before she died, mother tells Exeter inquest | ME / Chronic fatigue syndrome

A woman who died with severe ME was desperate for a “loving hug” as she neared the end of life but her hypersensitivity made all touch “excruciatingly painful”, her mother has told a coroner.

Giving evidence at the inquest of 27-year-old Maeve Boothby O’Neill, her mother, Sarah Boothby,…