My daughter in darkness

A 20-year-old mother, who was reduced to a vegetative state in a motorbike accident a year ago, has finally left hospital – despite her family being told she would be confined to a home for the elderly for life.

But Anna Bajada is as much a fighter as her daughter Angie, and apart from raising the rest of her family and her two-year-old granddaughter, she is making sure to improve the quality of life of her semi-conscious child.

Pink catches up with the three generations to see how hope is propelling them through the ordeal of coping with a daughter they can barely communicate with, and feeds directly through a hole in her belly, despite the frustrating fact that she can smell, taste and loves her food.

In tomorrow’s issue of the magazine, Pink also gets to know a 60-year-old grandmother and her motives behind placing a personal advert to find a husband.

It also signs up to the social networking site Badoo to understand the way the virtual clubbing scene has been brought into the bedroom and the changing face of dating, highlighting that the art of chatting up has taken on a whole new dimension.

Before Dr John Briffa, a specialist in nutrition and weight loss, renowned in the UK, launches his latest book on escaping the diet trap in January, he has chosen Malta as the first place to reveal the ground-breaking concepts contained in it.

In Pink’s fitness pages, he turns the tables on conventional dieting, binning the typical calorie counting, portion control… and consequent hunger.

Pink is a monthly magazine, published by Allied Newspapers Ltd, printed by Progress Press and produced by Mediamaker.