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Candice Haines isn't dead.

Honestly, she's not. She's been selling trainers and taking selfies , which are things people who aren't alive aren't able to do.

Yet Candice, 32, was puzzled to discover on Facebook a story purporting that she'd passed away.

The shocked mum found last week a photograph of herself attached to a story on health website Daily Records .

The site had mistaken Candice for another woman called Michelle Ashby, who sadly died from Crohn's disease in January last year.

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Candice, from Birmingham, also suffers from Crohn's, and thinks the bizarre mistake is down to the fact that she was in the news in 2015 due to undergoing a bowel resection operation – surgery that saved her life.

The point is, it did save her life. And so Candice didn't expect to see any news stories suggesting otherwise.

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"I woke up last Tuesday to my dad calling me – people were people ringing him thinking I'd died," Candice said .

"I'm more flabbergasted than anything else.

"I've had to do Facebook and Twitter posts telling people not to panic and that I'm alive."

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Candice was pictured alongside her children in the Facebook post (though the story on the Daily Records website has been amended).

Jade, 16, Casey, nine, Oliver, seven, and three-year-old Kobi-Kai are with her.

The lunch time supervisor spotted her apparent death after it was posted in a Crohn's group called IBD Superheroes .

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"I have no idea how it happened, my picture just turned up on this story on Facebook.

"I have a lot of friends on Facebook because I'm part of the Crohn's community, and everyone has started commenting and sharing the article. It's reached so many people.

"Even the local chemist, who I've known for years, thought I'd died."

Candice added that people were also somewhat perplexed when she took her children to school following the story.

"They think I've risen from the dead," she added.