‘My headache was so bad I had to pull over in the Peak District… what a stranger did next blew me away’

Rachel Hardy used to love nothing more than going to the gym and enjoying city life with her friends. But her life was turned upside down at the age of 27, when she suffered a terrifying illness.

The now 28-year-old, who lives in Manchester city centre, was working in Derbyshire when she began experiencing a bad headache on January 13.




Believing she was suffering a migraine, she decided to spend the rest of the day working from home. But her condition took a drastic turn during her drive back to Manchester – forcing her to pull over after just 10 minutes in the car.

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“I realised I wasn’t going to be able to continue because I felt so poorly,” she said. “I found somewhere to pull over. I had been driving through the Peak District, so I had very little signal. I rang my friend and my mum and they said I should call 999.”

Rachel was told she needed to find her own way to hospital – but she could barely see. She flagged a passing car down and explained her situation. The kind stranger drove Rachel, who was unable to walk by that point, all the way to Stepping Hill Hospital.

Doctors rushed her for an MRI scan where it was discovered she a massive bleed on her brain which was causing a stroke. Rachel was put into a coma and rushed to Salford Hospital for emergency surgery.

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