A growing number of people in midlife now suffer from strokes. Here’s what you can do to lessen your chances of having one
It had been a perfect start to 2022. Alexa Connolly, a language teacher from London, was on holiday in Spain with her husband and two adult sons. The family celebrated with dinner in a Marbella restaurant, before seeing in the New Year.
After her late night, Alexa spent the next day relaxing, when, suddenly, at 5pm, she found herself paralysed in her chair.
“I felt as if I couldn’t get up and struggled to shout out for help,” she recalls.
Luckily, her eldest son heard her attempts, and alerted Alexa’s husband. They realised that she was having a massive stroke and called an ambulance. By the time Alexa reached a specialist unit in Malaga, she had lost all movement in the left-hand side of her body.