Witten by Anna Hulme Adult NEC Survivor On May 17th ( I recently found out this is the day of NEC awareness!) 1999 I was born a healthy term+6 baby however I developed NEC soon after birth. I wasn’t feeding and I was going grey in colour, my abdomen distended. I was then rushed to the special care unit and put on antibiotics and x-rays were taken in the hope that this would improve things, the next day I was transferred to the local Children’s hospital in an ambulance and was