Lucy Rutler, an inspiration to those who believe in ‘it’s never too late’, now feels fulfilled as she graduates this summer from the Ïã¸Û×î¿ì¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥×ÊÁÏ with a first class Podiatry BSc(Hons) degree, having scored 90 per cent-plus across her final year.
Lucy is now practising at a foot clinic in Shoreham run by a Ïã¸Û×î¿ì¿ª½±ÏÖ³¡Ö±²¥×ÊÁÏ alumni and at a sports clinic in Hove where she is working alongside physiotherapists specialising in foot and ankle musculoskeletal pathology.
Lucy said: “I am 45 so I think the ‘never too late’ phrase is highly appropriate in my case.
“My father was a GP and my mother an Occupational Therapist so I guess the medicine thing was in my bones. I didn’t really give my future career much thought first time round in my late teens so I just studied what I was most interested in at the time which was basically travelling the world and learning about other cultures.
“When I took the decision to study again, podiatry appealed because it’s medical, it felt achievable and it really appealed to me to specialise in one part of the body.