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Daily Mirror
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Amy Packer

SHOCKING: Osteoporosis dad who broke his foot six times told by gp problem was psychological - What They Never Told You

When his four-year-old son asked his daddy how tall he was, former police officer James Simon* pulled out a tape measure, despite knowing full well he was 5ft 9in.

“I remember looking at the reading in disbelief,” he recalls. “It said I was 5ft 6in.”

That was 2007, and the then-31 year old from Staffordshire had recently hurt his back jumping into the sea on a stag do.

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