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A hairdresser suffering from a cerebrovascular accident says that her doctors dismissed her symptoms, claiming that she was due to tonsillitis.
Christine Morgan colored her client's hair and immediately felt violent headache and neck pain.
The 64-year-old husband, Dave, now full-time, Dave, called a GP, who examined his temperature and his glands.
She was told that she had tonsillitis after spotting a small white bump on her tonsils and that she had been prescribed penicillin.
Yet less than a week later, Mrs. Morgan was under the knife undergoing emergency brain surgery to treat a cerebral hemorrhage.
She was hospitalized for eight weeks and says the operation left her paralyzed on the left side of her body, which forced her to relearn how to walk.
Ms. Morgan, from Tonbridge in Kent, who is no longer working, is currently launching her own legal case in Diagnosis Mistake in January 2016.
Recalling her ordeal, she said, "I knew I was not feeling well, but I knew it was worse than tonsillitis.
"I never called a doctor for a sore throat, but like my husband Dave [65] was worried, the doctor outside normal hours came to our address.
"He checked my glands and my temperature and said he could see a small white mbad on my tonsils.
"I was always a little nervous because I had told him that I had not had a cough or sore throat, but you trust the doctors." He said I had a sore throat and I believed him. "
Ms. Morgan added, "Still, I did not improve, I felt spaced and the pain did not stop. So I asked my husband to call the NHS 111.
"They told me to go to A & E, and after two days my brain opened to try and stop the bleeding."
Morgan said six days between her diagnosis of tonsillitis on January 19th and her surgery on the 25th cost her "crucial time".
She said: "The operation completely paralyzed me on the left side, I had to try to relearn how to walk and my left foot will always have a foot drop.
"We will never know for sure, if I had the operation early, if she would have stopped such changes.
"But that has completely changed our lives – I can not work and my husband is now my full-time caregiver.
"I try to stay optimistic, but life is very, very different. The ads on television always say to act fast.
"The doctors who looked after me at St George's Hospital in London were amazing, they could not believe the signs had been missed."
Leena Savjani, a lawyer for medical negligence at Irwin Mitchell who is now investigating the case, said, "Christine has faced incredibly difficult years.
"And the impact of what has happened continues to have a profound impact on her and her family."
According to her, Ms. Morgan's symptoms were the "clbadic signs" of potential subarachnoid hemorrhage.
Ms. Savjani stated that Ms. Morgan's complaints "warranted an urgent hospitalization for investigation and treatment".
"Her story reminds the importance for all health professionals to become aware of the signs of a stroke and to take the measures that are required at all times," she said. added.
"We will continue to support Christine and her family to help them cope with what has happened."
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