Roisin Quinn, who suffered a stroke when she was 14, will perform a dance reflecting her recovery at mynwrc later this month
"I kind of hummed for my mummy to get her attention," she said."She didn't know it was a stroke. She saw my mouth was slightly drooped.
"She said: 'Can you reach your arms out? Can you speak? Can you put out your tongue and stuff?'" Roisin said.say early recognition of stroke is important to minimise the risk of severe long-term health problems.Symptoms of a stroke in children can vary from a sudden severe headache, vertigo or dizziness that is new, to very sudden nausea, visual effects and others.
Roisin was taken to Belfast's Royal Victoria Hospital. That's where she was told she had had a stroke. "I didn't really know what was happening myself; I kind of forget the things that happened at the very start," she said.Everything had changed.She added: "Luckily I got it back. I was completely paralysed on my left-hand side - bedbound.
"I was going to get open heart surgery. They found a benign tumour in my heart. Luckily that disappeared; it was a miracle. Then the therapy started.
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