Girl Of Only 14 In Stroke Horror!

[Arthur Little]

... unbelievable in a normal, active - otherwise healthy - person in her early teens, you'd think!


But this is what happened to 14~year~old Brenna Collie, from the Aberdeenshire village of Strichen.

Initially, ... when trying to describe to her mother, the strange symptoms she'd been experiencing since being laid low with a "bug" the previous day, her Mum told her to "stop being such a drama queen".

However, as the condition worsened, her speech became slurred. So a doctor was called, and she was taken to Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, where a CT scan revealed a blood clot in close proximity to her brain. Next thing, she underwent emergency thrombolytic (clot removal treatment) before being flown to a specialised neurological unit, more than 130 miles away in Edinburgh.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40027593 ...

Thankfully, following appropriate nursing, combined with a gruelling, course of intensive physiotherapy, this brave young lass is now well on the road to nothing short of a miraculous recovery.