‘My body is tired’: St. John’s woman fears she’s exhausted all avenues to get treatment for debilitating eating disorder – CTV
February 17, 2025
For the past 13 months, Erica Bradbury and her dog, Zuri, have moved back in with her parents in a small home in the east end of St. John’s, N.L.
It’s not the life she imagined for herself at 37, but it’s one of the only ways to keep herself as comfortable as possible, as she battles a severe case of anorexia nervosa that Bradbury believes will soon take her life.
“Severe bone loss, muscle atrophy, cardiac ischemia,” Bradbury explains. “Basically, there’s nothing really left for me… My body is tired. It’s giving up on me.”
Bradbury’s years have been a rotating door of treatments, hospital admissions and recovery programs. She believes she’s now exhausted anything available to her in her home province, Newfoundland and Labrador, and can’t imagine fighting any further for the funding and referrals that she would require to attend a program where she has felt some success, in Denver, Colo.
“I don’t have it in me to fight with the government for another 11 months. My body is not going to last another 11 months, at the rate things are going,” she said.
