family holiday. Clare Machin, 39, was with her 11-year-old son Aflie and her partner on a weekend caravan break in North Wales when she woke up with an agonising headache.
Clare’s cousin, Jacquie Gaffney, 52, told the Liverpool Echo: "She had woken up with a horrific pain in her head. She screamed 'get an ambulance' before she collapsed and started fitting." Clare, from Huyton, Merseyside, was taken to Glan Clwyd Hospital in Wales and was then transferred to Royal Stoke University Hospital where she underwent two operations to try and save her life.
Doctors told the family that the mum-of-four had suffered a "catastrophic event" in her brain called a subarachnoid haemorrhage.
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