Mum, 44, unable to talk after getting headache from glass of champagne
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA woman discovered she was born with an 'arterial malformation' after having a stroke and not being able to talk. Mum-of-two Kerry Tate, 44, had suffered with headaches for years and was initially concerned after developing a headache on a Saturday evening after a glass of champagne.
However, the pain only continued to get worse, YorkshireLive reports. Over the proceeding days in May last year the pain began to worsen, waking up on Wednesday morning unable to talk.
She had to write a note to let her family know what was going on and she was rushed to hospital for a CT scan. READ MORE:Dad-of-two given just months to live after finding lump in his stomach The scan showed she had suffered a bleed on the brain and more surprisingly that the Pontefract mum had been born with an 'arterial malformation', causing her to have this stroke.
This was only the beginning of a 'daunting journey', she said, which is far from over. Kerry is undergoing speech therapy and underwent gamma knife surgery last month.
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