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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Logan Ross & Laura Mills

Girl who had stroke at 11 takes first steps after medics said she'd never walk again

A girl paralysed by a stroke has learnt to walk again after her parents decided not to tell her that doctors believed it wasn't possible.

Natalie Bentos-Pereira, from South Carolina in the US, was just 11 when she suffered a spinal stroke in 2017. She woke up feeling a pain in her back but went to school anyway not realising what had happened.

The pain got worse throughout the day and eventually she couldn't walk, so her parents rushed her to hospital.

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