Ryan Thomas has shared the supportive message he sent to his friend and former Coronation Street star Chris Fountain after he spoke out about suffering a mini stroke.
The actor, who played Tommy Duckworth in the ITV soap, revealed he spent five days in a London hospital after waking up at home unable to speak properly in August.
Chris said he was left "speaking like a toddler" after doctors discovered he had suffered a Transient Ischaemic Attack (TIA) – known as a mini stroke – after a blood clot lodged in his brain.
After several days of undergoing tests at a specialist stroke unit at the Royal London Hospital, medics had determined the actor had a hole in his heart which had caused the blood clot to travel to his brain, triggering the stroke.
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