An allergic reaction to medication landed a young mum in hospital unable to recognise her own name until she had five blood transfusions.
Lucy Gourlay was just 28 when had a stroke at her Dundee home as her twin babies napped upstairs. Lucy had taken an extremely rare reaction to tranexamic acid – a drug to treat heavy periods.
But this year, the gutsy mum will run the Edinburgh marathon to raise money for the Stroke Association and to prove it is possible to recover.
Lucy, 29, was alone at home with her tots Stuart and Skye when it happened, as husband Iain was in Norway with the Army.She said: “I started to feel a bit funny.
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