Girl, 9, found ‘lifeless’ on bathroom floor moments after she complained of headache
28.08.2022 - 16:47
/ manchestereveningnews.co.uk
A mum has told of the horrifying moment she found her nine-year-old daughter 'lifeless' on the bathroom floor.
Millie Moore collapsed just moments after she complained of a headache. Mum Sarah, of Ellesmere Port, Cheshire, rushed her to hospital and learned Millie had suffered a significant bleed on the brain, the Liverpool Echo reports.
Tests revealed the bleed had been caused by an arteriovenous malformation (AVM), a tangle of blood vessels that connects arteries and veins in the brain. Millie, now 10, is now making a recovery but her mother wants to raise awareness of the condition.
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Sarah told the Echo: "It was the last day of school before the summer holidays and Millie had been okay all day.
"At about 7pm, she started complaining of a headache so she ended up just putting a wet cloth on her head and my husband gave her some Calpol. Almost immediately after having the Calpol she was hysterically crying to the point it just didn’t sound right.
"She vomited quite severely in the kitchen so I moved her down to the toilet. She was acting quite erratically in her behaviour. She started screaming 'I’m sorry' and I was like 'Why are you apologising? We all get sick at times.' Her behaviour turned a bit and it was all quite bizarre."
She went upstairs to call an ambulance but when she returned, she found Millie unresponsive. After being told it would be more than an hour for an ambulance to arrive, Sarah drove her to the Countess of Chester hospital.
Sarah said: "One of the nurses made a lot of calls to specialists and people were turning up in jeans and jumpers from home so at that point we knew it was really serious. She