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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Jessica Taylor

'Brain bug caused by chicken pox gave me hallucinations and put me in a coma'

A mum who spent years suffering from a brain bug that could have killed her has revealed how she used to go to sleep not knowing if she'd wake up.

Angelique Aldworth, 44, was rugby-mad and working as a coach in the sport in Dawlish, Devon, when she started suffering agonising headaches in February 2020.

She recalled: "The headaches were a thudding all over my head, it just felt like my whole head was suffering. It didn't stop, I had no release unless I slept.

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