Rosie Turner speaks about her mum's cardiac arrest

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00:00um I remember my legs just buckled underneath me um and I remember just kind of saying

00:09but she's okay she's going to be okay isn't she okay she's okay and

00:14Scott my husband couldn't say anything he he just said I'm sorry I can't we don't know we

00:20just don't know anything and then I remember being on the flight on the way home constantly

00:27checking in with my family making sure she was okay and then eventually landed uh on the 16th of

00:34February um at about two o'clock and went straight over to Brighton Hospital where she was um in the

00:40ICU to see her um and it was very surreal because when I walked into the ICU I don't know why but in

00:49my head I thought I've seen her she's okay she's going to be okay um and you know the surgeons

00:58the doctors so many people had said that she's really remarkable for what she'd gone through and

01:05how brilliantly she was doing I think about four five days in that's when we realized and we were

01:13told that there may be some damage to her spinal cord she'd had a number of strokes after the cardiac

01:20arrest um because her blood had also leaked in from her valve into her left side of her lungs

01:29so she'd lost a lot of blood she'd had a lot of starved vessels and um oxygen across her body

01:40predominantly a few strokes in her brain which luckily led to no kind of permanent damage and

01:46no brain damage but it did mean that uh her spinal cord was starved of oxygen um and we kind of were

01:54told that it's it's very unlikely that she would ever regain use of her legs again fully

01:59uly

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