England head coach Gareth Southgate has responded to reports linking him with the manager's job at Manchester United.
05.03.2024 - 06:43 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A dad was diagnosed with a 'one in 10 million' medical condition after suffering an extremely painful headache.
Steve Ricketts, 46, was diagnosed with the neurological condition after collapsing at a work event in December 2021, with a headache that felt like ‘someone had taken a baseball bat’ to his head.
The regional commercial manager from Bramhall attended the function and felt ‘absolutely fine’ until he experienced the ‘thunderclap headache’. Luckily, Steve had completed a St John Ambulance first aid course, allowing him to recognise that he needed urgent attention, believing he was experiencing a brain aneurysm, a bulge in the brain vessel.
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Steve said: “I had a pressure feeling in my head, which extended into my shoulders and my arms and my extremities, I wasn’t able to speak, and I had tremors, seizure-like tremors. I’ve never had a headache like it, and I thought I was a goner.”
Steve was blue-lighted to North Manchester General Hospital A&E, where it was discovered he had a bleed on the brain, specifically a subarachnoid haemorrhage. He was then transferred to Salford Royal Hospital early the next morning for specialist care by paramedics because they told him: “There’s a chance you won’t make it.”
At Salford Royal, Steve underwent a number of tests to try and find the source of the bleed, too scared to fall asleep throughout the tests as he feared he ‘wouldn’t wake up’. He spent around 10 days in hospital on ‘round-the-clock painkillers’ before being discharged, signed off work for three months and began to undertake physio and rehabilitation to help him recover and walk again.
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