Putting tough times to bed

Spring was preparing to arrive but sleep would not come. For several months last year, Yip Pin Xiu would get up in the middle of the night and anxiously wonder: "What if I never get better?"

Those sleepless nights haunted her following the Melbourne leg of the World Para Swimming World Series last February while she also confided her insecurities to good friend and now-retired swimmer Theresa Goh.