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13yo active, healthy girl suffers rare spinal cord stroke, loses feeling in her legs

Tim and Rhiann Caldwell have been unable to work while supporting Harriet in hospital. (Supplied: Tim Caldwell)

Teenager Harriet Caldwell was stretching before basketball training four weeks ago when she lost sensation in her legs.

"She was just doing her stretches and so forth, stretching her lower back and she felt a pop," her father Tim Caldwell recalled. 

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