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Damien Edgar

"You know your own body" - Belfast mum on battling to rare diagnosis after strokes

A young Belfast mum is encouraging others to always seek a second opinion after she was diagnosed with an extremely rare condition after suffering several strokes.

Ashley McWilliams fell ill for the first time while out at a KFC in 2018, the first of four strokes over a three year period.

"My whole left side of my body just went completely numb and I couldn't speak - I literally could not string a sentence together," she told Belfast Live.

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