The three-year-old girl left paralysed after suffering massive stroke while lying on the sofa

A three-year-girl has been left paralysed from the shoulders down after suffering a stroke.

Mikka Davies, who had been a healthy toddler, suddenly lost the use of her limbs while lying on the sofa at home in Barnsley, South Yorkshire.

Her mother Rachel, 26, took Mikka to the local hospital and she was quickly transferred to Sheffield Children’s Hospital.

After four weeks of extensive tests the family were told that Mikka had suffered a massive stroke. They said they were mystified as to what caused the brain injury.

Mikka, who is now back at home, has regained slight movement in her right arm and left thumb, but is otherwise paralysed and has to wear a body harness to help support her.

Ms Davies said: ‘She had been crying but I ignored her at first because I thought she just wanted attention.

‘She asked for a biscuit but she just couldn’t take it from me. It was so strange.

‘My first thought was, “has she had a stroke?”, but then I thought about that TV advert which shows the warning signs of strokes.

‘It talks about one side of the body, but this wasn’t, it was both sides.’

She added: ‘It’s so tragic, she is only a little girl and you just don’t think anyone so young would suffer a stroke. It’s something you associate with older people.

‘Although I feared she might have had a stroke, another part of me was thinking , it can’t be that, she is only a child and when the hospital confirmed it we were shattered.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1351318/Three-year-old-girl-paralysed-suffering-shock-stroke-sofa.html#ixzz1CTXJqCmP

 

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Making Merry on National Puzzle Day (via Away with Words)

that sounds like fun! I love puzzles and do them often!

Clue: What is a six-letter word for a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma? They are often baffling, frequently infuriating, and mostly fun. They are: Perplexing Unnerving Zany Zen-like (sometimes) Acrostic (like this clue). They come in forms as varied as crosswords, jigsaws, search-a-words, Tangrams, anagrams, … Read More

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Topic: It’s time to vent

What’s going on in your life right now that’s driving you nuts?

everything makes me nuts! I am really peeved that the lawn mowing people haven’t come (AGAIN) and I have been waiting since Christmas time. the grass is going to be  up to my knees. I have called and everything.

My family makes me nuts too. especially the control freak aunt – boy she pisses me off most of the time!

I have to go and run away now as I am hungry – see you later!

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Somebody’s Always Watching

Author: Jimmy D. Brown

Even when we don’t think they are, they are. Even when we don’t see them, their eyes are upon us. Even when we don’t pay any attention, they do. Somebody’s always watching. I got an ugly reminder of that earlier today.

We pulled into the Hampton Inn to grab a room for the night and there was one other vehicle under the registration awning as we arrived. The vehicle immediately got our attention because it had license plates that read GOSPEL. The familiar “fish” was plastered near the back bumper. And there were other Christian messages adorning the front of the vehicle as well. We knew these must be some of the brethren.

And then, it happened.

They locked their keys in the car. Apparently, it was the wife’s fault, judging from the tantrum and explosive words the husband began throwing at her. Unaware that we had pulled up behind them, unaware that anyone was watching, unaware that someone who had observed all their Christian decorations had their eyes locked on them, and unaware that their testimony for Christ was on open view.