Recovery should not require courage. Your doctor should have all the skills and stroke protocols that get you 100% recovered. Starting with stoppingthe 5 causes of the neuronal cascade of death in the first week.
Not getting you 100% recovered is failure on your doctor and stroke hospitals part.
Ingatestone teenager who suffered a stroke at 13 has been awarded with a national courage award
After the stroke Elizabeth Kiss was unable to even lift her head
Elizabeth Kiss was just 13 when she collapsed at her family home complaining of a severe headache.
After being rushed to hospital, scans revealed that she had a clot in her brain which had caused a stroke.
“The stroke came as a total shock to everyone, I was a normal healthy kid,” Elizabeth said.
“We never thought that I could have had a stroke so young.
“Even when I arrived at hospital I wasn’t originally treated for a stroke because they thought I was having a migraine.”
Doctors were initially reluctant to operate because of her young age, but Elizabeth’s condition started to deteriorate, so they performed emergency surgery to try and remove the clot.
Unfortunately the procedure was unsuccessful, but Elizabeth started to improve, enough so that they were able to move her out of intensive care.
"She couldn’t lift her head and she had to be hoisted in and out of bed"
Doctors told the family that it was unlikely the clot could cause another stroke and she was put on medication.However as Elizabeth recovered the effects of the stroke became clear, it had left her paralysed, unable to sit up or roll over in bed.
Elizabeth’s mother, Danielle, described what it was like for her daughter in those early days.
“It was so tough for Elizabeth, she couldn’t lift her head and she had to be hoisted in and out of bed, but she just kept pushing herself all the time,” she said.
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