MY TOOTH put me in A COMA!

Caitlin Alsop, 24, Gold Coast, Qld

Struggling to breathe, and with the last of my energy waning, I tried to focus.

I was lying in bed one night in August 2018 when my tongue – which had been sore earlier in the evening – suddenly swelled up on one side.

I’m having a stroke, I panicked.

I should have gone straight to the emergency room. But I’d had a paralysing fear of hospitals since my grandma