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Daily Mirror
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Hollie Bone

Teen girl could be internally decapitated at any time due to 'walking death sentence'

A teenager who feels like a ‘walking death sentence’ is desperately fighting for brain surgery to stop a rare condition internally 'decapitating' her.

Allesha Barnfield, 17, started looking for answers three years ago, when her daily headaches became so crippling that she was bed bound and couldn’t bear noise or light.

The former college student, from Highfields, South Yorkshire, had been studying law with dreams of going to university and becoming a lawyer - but they were crushed overnight when she was diagnosed with Chiari Malformation.

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