Jill praises hospital team for saving life from deadly stroke...

A FORMER patient who suffered a life-threatening stroke has praised a hospital team for saving her life.

Jillian Ryan, 62, is back to running her home business after suffering from a severe stroke earlier this year.

In September 2023, Jill woke up in her home in Thirsk with a dense weakness on the left side of her body including her face, arm and leg.

She was instantly blue-lighted to The James Cook University Hospital’s neurology and stroke unit as she had shown signs of a stroke.

After initially being assessed by the stroke team and having an urgent computed tomography (CT) scan, clinicians discovered a large clot in the major blood vessel supplying the right side of Jill’s brain.

Hospital staff quickly scrambled to get Jill into the operation theatre and performed a mechanical thrombectomy within the same day of her admission.

Mechanical thrombectomy is a minimally invasive procedure that involves removing blood clots from arteries within the brain for patients who have had a stroke.

Thanks to the prompt care from a diverse group of hospital staff, Jill recovered from her stroke and was discharged within six days – with support from the hospital’s community stroke therapy support.

If not for the early intervention by the hospital staff, Jill’s condition could have been fatal as there were chances of her suffering from either permanent brain damage or long-term disability.





















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