For almost two years Demien Barry had a mysterious illness that gave him terrible pain in his stomach. He had to go into hospital eight times because he became so ill. He had to stop playing sport and eating his favourite foods. He was always tired and in pain. The hardest part was not knowing what was wrong. He had to have lots of uncomfortable tests, but none of them found anything. Then one day Damien was given a new test. It was very simple. All he had to do was swallow a camera! But it wasn’t an ordinary camera. This camera was 2.6 centimetres long – the same size as a pill. It went down into his stomach and then travelled through his body the same way that food normally does. The new ‘camera in a pill’ is a breakthrough because it can get to parts of the body that other tests can’t reach. It is also much less uncomfortable than many other tests. As Damien walked home from hospital, the tiny camera was busy taking picture inside his body. Seven hours later Damien went back to the hospital and the pictures were downloaded to a computer . The doctor could easily see what was wrong. Damien had some large ulcers in part of his intestine. He needed surgery, but the doctors knew they could make him better.