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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
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Branwen Jones & Remy Greasley

Woman spent months 'fed by tube' after she woke up with one eye closed

A woman spent months being "fed through a tube" at Alder Hey after she woke up with one of her eyes still closed.

Sioned Erin Hughes, who goes by Erin, woke up one morning and struggled to open one of her eyes. At first the now 24-year-old didn't think anything of it, but soon "a pattern started to develop" and it became obvious there "something serious was happening."

Erin, who was a young teenager at the time, told Wales Online: "I was working as a waitress in a café – having one eye closed was proving almost impossible.

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