Friend dials 999 after woman, 21, starts 'speaking gobbledygook' while watching film
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA 'beautiful' law student had to have half of her skull removed after falling ill while watching a film. Emily Mcarther, 21, was at her student accommodation when she began "speaking gobbledygook" on May 3.
Her friend Alex phoned 999 after noticing Emily's face had dropped on one side and she was unable to walk. Emily, from Pennington in Leigh, was taken to hospital, where doctors discovered she had an AVM [Brain Arteriovenous Malformation], a rare condition which affects less than 1pc of people.
Emily was studying law at the University of Liverpool at the time of the incident, the Liverpool ECHO reports. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. Her auntie, Ann Wainwright, 57, said: "It came out of nowhere and has changed her life forever.
The doctors said it's an AVM which you can be born with it and can never affect you or something can set it off. "We're lucky Emily was awake because if she had gone to sleep that night she would have died.
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