Looking on the bright side…
Mar 03, 2022
4 minutes
Emma Cousins, 35, Sheffield
Rubbing my temples, I wondered why I felt so poorly.
It was March 2018 and I was at my job as a carer for stroke survivors, feeling dizzy, nauseous.
Strangely, my left eye felt weird, too. Like it was being stretched somehow.
And throughout the day, I didn’t feel much better.
‘I’m going to have to go and get checked out,’ I told my son Bradley, then 12, that evening at home.
My mum Karen, then 58, picked up me, Bradley and his younger sister Megan, then 5.
Dropped me at A&E at Chesterfield Royal Hospital, before taking the kids home with her.
I waited hours to
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