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Hero puppy helps save life of Scots brain bleed teen who suffered rare form of stroke

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stroke.Darren Dawson was getting ready for school when he suffered a bleed to his brain caused by an anomaly that affects just one in 100,000 people a year.It left the 14-year-old paralysed down his right side and medics faced a race against time to save him.But thanks to the family’s labrador Douglas, Darren got to hospital in time.His mum Liz was making breakfast when the pup, now nine months, refused to eat his food and started pacing between her and the door.

She said: “After about the fourth time he did it, I went [with him] and then I heard Darren howling. It was the most horrific sound I’ve ever heard.

I ran upstairs and found Darren on the floor.”The teenager was on the operating table at Glasgow’s Royal Hospital for Children just.

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