Mum, 37, who collapsed watching TV wakes up 10 days later unable to remember her birthday

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A mum has revealed how she was left unable to look after her child when she had a stroke just weeks after giving birth. Charlotte Coulbert had been watching TV with her husband and children on June 14, 2022, when she collapsed.

The 37-year-old had a stroke in the ambulance called for her due to a blood clot blocking her brain’s blood supply – later learning the clot was caused by a hole in her heart, which she did not know she had.

Charlotte, from Stramshall, Staffordshire, was rushed to the Royal Stoke University Hospital, where she woke up ten days later after being placed in an induced coma.

When she woke she had paralysis on her right side and aphasia, a communication disorder that can also have an impact on memory. READ MORE: 'I thought I had just pulled a muscle in my back playing golf...