A dad-of-three was on FaceTime to his wife when he suffered a stroke after shouting his daughters for help. Wayne Burns had previously been healthy and had recently made lifestyle changes to support his medication for high blood pressure.
He also had plans to join the gym with his daughter and cut out alcohol completely. But during the early hours of last Friday morning, Wayne suddenly took ill at his home in St Helens and shouted out to his daughters when he realised something was wrong.
Losing his co-ordination and eventually his speech, he was suffering from a suspected stroke. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and brilliant new features. His daughters called an ambulance and phoned wife Lindsay to inform her of what was happening.
With wife of 16 years Lindsay working as a locum nurse in the Isle of Man, she was reassuring her husband via Facetime as he suffered a suspected stroke, reports The Echo.
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