Woman thought she was just having a hangover, but at 23 she had a stroke

Nearly ten years later, a British woman creates a group to help other young stroke victims

A dinner full of drinks with friends. A migraine the next day. Hangover? This is what Alex Bowles, 23 years old at the time, imagined. He spent almost the entire weekend at home, hoping to improve.

On Monday the feeling hadn’t gone away and Alex didn’t go to work. The British woman reported to the “Daily Mail” newspaper that the pain was so intense that it felt like half of her head wasn’t there. When the day laborer who worked at her house spoke to Alex, he realized something was wrong.

The British woman couldn’t pronounce the words correctly and didn’t actually say anything at all. The woman said Alex needed help and called her mother, who called for an ambulance and took her to hospital.

At the institute, the British woman couldn’t even sit still. She had to lie on the floor, until she was carried to bed. At first the emergency room doctors thought that what she had was just a very intense headache. But a doctor asked her to have a CT scan before returning home.

The results showed that Alex had suffered an ischemic and haemorrhagic stroke – a clot and haemorrhage in the brain.

Initially the British woman didn’t even really understand that she had had a stroke, she was so sick. But little by little she realized that that condition would change her life.

At the time, Alex worked at an animal shelter and was an administrative assistant at a daycare. The stroke prevented her from working for a year.

The British woman needed to undergo different types of treatments and therapies, and over the years she was able to count on her mother’s help to relearn many tasks that she previously considered simple and everyday. To this day, she says she feels the effects of the stroke.

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In the midst of his recovery, there was some news that shook Alex: four years after suffering the stroke, it was the turn of his mother, Karen, then 53 years old. Alex’s mother also reported experiencing a severe headache, and people who worked with her reported difficulty speaking to her. In 2018 the roles were reversed: Alex started taking care of Karen.

The traumatic experience made the two realize how different they are from other people, even after receiving help and going through rehabilitation processes. Despite still living with the effects of the stroke, mother and daughter currently run a tea shop in the Brentwood district of Essex.

Now, at 32, Alex is preparing for a new challenge: helping other people who have suffered strokes, regardless of their age. He explains that he will be a hub so that stroke victims don’t feel alone and can share personal experiences about how they feel about recovery. In addition, the Englishman supports a campaign by the charity “Stroke Association” to raise awareness of the effects of stroke on young people.

Source: Terra

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