Liam Rudd, a 30-year-old mechanic from Guildford, suffered a stroke while living on the Australian Gold Coast. Despite being 'superfit' and 'eating healthily,' the stroke caused paralysis on his left side. Doctors performed emergency surgery to remove blood clots, but Mr. Rudd remains in a coma and faces a long road to recovery.
A 'superfit healthy eater' is facing a life of paralysis after suffering a shock stroke at just 30 years-old — as cases of attacks in Brits under 50s continue to soar. Liam Rudd, a mechanic from Guildford, had just moved to the Australian Gold Coast when he suffered the deadly stroke, causing him to immediately collapse in the shower. His partner, Stella Slinger Thompson, 28, found him unable to move after the attack, on Sunday 11th November, and immediately called an ambulance.
'He'd been throwing up so we thought he had a really bad concussion, we didn't realise what it was at that point,' recalled Ms Slinger Thompson, who is from Brighton but also lives in Australia. Now, having recently awoken from a coma, Mr Rudd suffers paralysis on his left side, and has been told he must undergo intensive rehabilitation for at least a year and a half. 'We don't know what's going to happen,' said Ms Slinger Thompson. 'He could be in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. Who knows at this stage. It's a lot of living in limbo and trying to stay positive without really knowing anything.' After arriving at hospital, doctors examined Mr Rudd and almost immediately ascertained that he had suffered a stroke due to paralysis on his left side. He'd need emergency surgery to remove a blood clot in his brain that had caused the attack, they said. Liam Rudd, 30, suffered a potentially deadly stroke despite being 'superfit' and 'eating healthily'. However, during surgery doctors found a second blood clot that was too 'high risk' to operate on immediately, forcing them to delay the operation until the following day. The first surgery took six hours, and involved cutting into his skull to relieve any pressure in his brain. 'The second surgery was a pretty sleepless night,' said Ms Slinger Thompson. 'It's been pretty bleak.' Doctors put Mr Rudd into a medically induced coma in order to carry out the risky operatio
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