A 10-year-old boy was rushed to hospital after his tongue felt "tingly" minutes after waving goodbye to his mum.
Joey Tildesley-Devine, from St Helens, donned a dicky bow and suit for 'own clothes day' at school, but minutes after his mum Karen dropped him off, the headteacher came to find her. The school had already called an ambulance after the "happy" boy took a sudden turn in class.
He'd told a classmate his "tongue was a bit tingly" and went to get a glass of water before a teaching assistant heard him yelp and realised the "frightened" 10-year-old had lost the ability to speak. When Karen, who was still on the school premises, saw Joey "slumped to his right hand side" with his face "completely drooped", the former nursing home worker knew he'd had a stroke. He was one of the 400 kids each year in the UK who have one, according to Brain Research UK.
