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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Eleanor Barlow

Woman who took on hike two months after brain haemorrhage hands medal to surgeon

A woman who took on a memorial hike eight weeks after suffering a brain haemorrhage has given her medal to the neurosurgeon who saved her life.

Bernie Burke, 61, was two months away from walking the Giant’s Causeway Macmillan Mighty Hike to mark the first anniversary of her brother Anthony Larkin’s death from lung cancer when she suffered the subarachnoid haemorrhage in April.

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