Sarah Luxton, a primary school teacher, suffered from a rare type of stroke, leaving her with physical and emotional difficulties. The campaign aims to challenge the misconception that strokes only affect older people.
By Bea SwallowA primary school teacher was unable to return to work after suffering from a rare type of stroke.
She was taken to Bristol Royal Infirmary where she spent three weeks in hospital and nearly four receiving rehabilitation. Mrs Luxton's stroke was a rarer type known as a right side Lateral Medullary Syndrome, or a tear in the brain stem.Sarah's brother, Wayne Ewing, raised £4,200 for The Stroke Association and Nailsea Stroke Survivors Club by doing a sponsored skydive in July"I have no feeling or temperature gauge on my left side, which is very scary as I have burned and cut myself on a number of occasions but not known I've done it.
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