'I was left paralysed at 24 because of the contraceptive pill'
WHEN Bobbie Jarvis suddenly lost all sensation in her left arm she had no idea what was happening.
She claims that doctors confirmed the pill had thickened her blood and a clot caused a stroke on the right side of her brain.Kennedy News and MediaBobbie first went to hospital on February 12 with a constant headache but was discharged four days later when she claims doctors found nothing wrong with her.
"I managed to drag myself off the bed and out the door up the garden. I don't really remember much else except hearing myself trying to breathe. "The stroke was on the right side on the top of my brain. The swelling got too much [for my brain] which is why I kept fitting.
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