Former “The Great British Baking Show” judge Prue Leith revealed that she was recently hospitalized after she lost her sight and speech, which had her fearing that she was suffering a stroke.
“A few weeks ago, staying in Yorkshire, I had a migraine attack," Leith wrote in her column in the September issue of The Oldie magazine, per The Sun. “It followed a familiar path. First, I can see only half of whatever I’m looking at. This is speedily followed by a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights in the upper right field of vision."
She added that she worried her husband, who called emergency services due to her incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words”.
“I tried to tell him it was just a migraine, but I couldn’t string two words together," Leith explained. "He rang our doctor, who asked me, could I raise my arms? Yes. Make a fist? Yes. Did anything hurt? No. Was the side of my face drooping? No."
“In spite of my answers, she ordered an ambulance to take me to Harrogate Hospital. The ambulance man asked me the same questions, as did a nurse on arrival at A&E, and so, after a six-hour wait, did the doctor," she continued. "In spite of my assuring him (I’d recovered coherent speech by then) that it was a migraine, he decided on a CT scan. Two hours later, I had one, waited another hour for the results, and was released at 2am.”
Due to her age, they wanted to ensure that she was not suffering a stroke.
"And the doctor took the trouble to access my NHS records. He explained why he wanted to refer me for a brain scan, just to be sure (people of my age, 86, are prone to mini-strokes)," Leith said. "I knew all along that all I had was a migraine. But since the speech problem is a classic symptom of a stroke, and my extreme old age being a time when mini-strokes are common, everyone was determined to be safe not sorry.”
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