Mum went to bed with 'severe migraine' only to wake up paralysed
A mum has been left paralysed after going to bed with "a severe migraine" and waking up to find she had suffered a stroke
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A mum has been left paralysed after going to bed with "a severe migraine" and waking up to find she had suffered a stroke.
Alli Bate, from Warrington in Cheshire, began to feel unwell while out for a meal with friends and decided to head home with a suspected migraine.
However, after trying to sleep it off, her symptoms worsened and was taken to hospital on August 7.
The mum-of-one suffered from a haemorrhagic stroke where blood from an artery begins bleeding into the brain - with the survival rate at around 10 per cent.
After trying to sleep it off, her symptoms worsened and was taken to hospital on August 7
PA"My partner Olivia called for an ambulance and we found out I was having a stroke. I didn't have a clue what was going on as I was so out of it," Bate told the Liverpool Echo.
The 39-year-old explained that she didn't think she had suffered from a stroke as she was too young.
She added that she had been having migraines more frequently before the stroke but these "masked" any other symptoms.
The mum spent two weeks in intensive care and three months in hospital and is left paralysed down the left side of her body.
The counsellor and teacher is now learning to walk again and has vowed to keep fighting for her family.
She said: "There was a point last year where I was considering not carrying on. It's the little things like getting myself dressed, not being able to work.
"For example, with only one hand I can't put my hair up, I can't go to the toilet by myself and put clothes on myself.
"You can't help but go to a dark place. I didn't want to fall into a hole and I look at what I can do rather than what I can't do. I refuse to let it get to me and I need to be there for my son Mason and my family."
The counsellor and teacher is now learning to walk again and has vowed to keep fighting for her family
PABate hopes to raise awareness that the symptoms of strokes can often be "stereotypically targeted" at older people, but at the time of her stroke, she had "very high" blood pressure.
Her partner Olivia has now launched a GoFund Me page to raise funds for alternative treatment in America.Writing on the page, she said: "Alli is paralysed on her left side, has no use in her left arm or hand, and is slowly learning to walk again.
"Alli has spent her life as a counsellor and a teacher helping to bring healing to others - now it's her turn. The possibility that this treatment could give her some semblance of her life back is priceless.
"Alli has carers three times per day as she is unable to perform even the most basic of tasks for herself.