Experts have shared the rare warning signs of a stroke, after Prue Leith yesterday revealed she was rushed to hospital after a terrifying scare.
The former Bake Off judge, 86, was on holiday with her husband John Playfair when her vision became ‘a bright circle of flickering, coloured lights’.
While she had suffered with migraines since the age of nine, and had experienced visual disturbances before, Prue was horrified to find her speech then descended into an ‘incomprehensible jumble of disconnected words’.
Having never suffered the symptom before, John rang Prue’s doctor, fearing that she was having a stroke.
After a CT scan at hospital, and 10 hours of
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