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Woman appeals for return of pain relief gear stolen in Colchester
A woman who suffers with chronic pain has begged for the return of an emergency medical bag that she said had been Waters, 42, from Crowthorne, Berkshire, keeps an emergency supply of morphine and medicine, along with electronic devices that block severe headaches and spinal items were kept in a green Adidas bag, which her husband was "devastated" to find missing, when the couple returned to their car on Priory Street, Colchester, on Police confirmed it had received a report of a theft from a car park in Priory Street between 13:00 BST and 15:00 on Tuesday and that inquiries were ongoing.
Mrs Waters, an artist, said: "It was very, very upsetting, and they would be of absolutely no use to anybody who stole them."She said she was mainly bedbound, so it was unusual for the devices to be out of the spinal implant is still activated but she is now without the remote and the serial number she would need to reprogramme appealed to whoever stole her items to hand them in, saying: ""I don't understand your story or why you needed to do that and I'm sorry if life is hard for you."
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