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Daily Mail
15 hours ago
- Health
- Daily Mail
Watch the shocking moment nurse, 21, breaks her neck during horror gym workout
A nurse left in 'excruciating pain' after landing on her head while performing a somersault was dismissed by doctors—who completely missed that she had fractured her spine. It was only after Brooke Bowen, 21, got so fed up of having her concerns repeatedly shrugged off and she sought a private opinion that she discovered the seriousness of her injuries, which she says could leave her paralysed. The saga began on April 22 of this year when Ms Bowen, of Wakefield in West Yorkshire, attended a gym class with her friend after their cheerleading practice was cancelled. The paediatric nurse attempted a somersault into the establishment's foam pit—a trick she said she had done 100 times before. But despite her extensive experience, she landed on her head, hitting the hard floor below, as seen in video footage. Recalling what happened, she said: 'I got upside down and I knew I wasn't going to make it round and fell down on my head... It was the worst pain in the world.' Immediately, she experienced excruciating shooting pains in her neck and back, so she took some painkillers. And when the pain worsened overnight, she went to the A&E department in the nearby Pinderfields Hospital to get checked out. But, sadly, Brooke claims that despite showing the staff the video and explaining how severe her pain was, she was told it wasn't 'traumatic enough' to require a surgery. On her experience at the hospital, she said: 'I'm a nurse so I told them I couldn't go to work in this kind of pain. 'In the end they ended up doing an x-ray as I fought for it, but they said it was fine, and they sent me home.' After the hospital sent her home, Ms Bowen said she spent two months going back and forth to her GP for pain medication. 'I feel like I wasn't initially listened too. I've been in work and have still gone to cheerleading since the injury as I didn't know I had the injury,' she said It wasn't until she reached out for a private medical scan through her insurance that she discovered on June 20, that she had fractured her spine in two places. This was in the third (C3) and fourth (C4) cervical vertebrae, which are both located in the neck. 'They said they were stable fractures but if I started to get these certain symptoms I needed to get medical attention,' she said. She was also later told she had spinal injuries to her C5 and C6, with bruising that was compressing. Just two days later, she woke up with pins and needles in her legs as well as cramping in her arm and she was admitted to hospital for 10 days. 'I could still walk but I couldn't go to the toilet. I just thought the worst and thought I was going to be paralaysed.' In the hospital in June, she says doctors there told her the symptoms were 'all in her head'. And while there, she said: 'I woke up one day and I couldn't really feel my legs and when I tried to walk, they were really wobbly.' She added: 'Since then I have had left sided weakness in my arm and leg and my legs hardly got any power.' Now, back at home, she struggles to walk and claims she is at risk of becoming paralysed in the next couple of years due to the injury. She believes that if the hospital hadn't missed her pain in April, she may not be facing such severe long-term effects from her injury. Since being discharged from hospital, she has to attend hydrotherapy sessions for six weeks and use a wheelchair to leave the house. Although she has been told her fractures 'will just heal' Ms Bowen said she was also told her injury also affected the C5 and C6, with bruising that's compressing. 'The consultant on Monday said I could lose all my ability [in my legs] or I could get it all back and just need to learn to live my life like this. 'It is scary to think that one day I could be paralysed,' she added. 'As it's been so long, I think my injury is worse now as it didn't get treated initially. 'I'll always think that if I was treated at the start I wouldn't be in this position now.' Dr Mark Freeman, deputy chief medical officer at Mid Yorkshire Teaching NHS Trust said: 'We pride ourselves on providing the best possible care to our patients.' He added: 'We are sorry to hear Brooke is not happy with the care we provided to her on this occasion. 'If Brooke would like to contact the Trust we would be happy to meet with her and discuss this in more detail.'
The Sun
2 days ago
- Entertainment
- The Sun
I queued for an hour & a half at Alton Towers but couldn't ride because of my big boobs
A WOMAN has opened up after being 'humbled' by her big boobs at Alton Towers. The paediatric nurse, who is currently on a weight loss journey, recently took a trip to the popular theme park, but was left mortified when her large breasts meant she couldn't fit on a ride. 4 4 4 4 After queuing for an hour and a half to get on Nemesis Reborn, a much-loved rollercoaster at the Staffordshire theme park, Nyachin, a content creator who calls herself a " fat girl," was gobsmacked when she realised she was too big to fit. Posting on social media, the woman got candid on the awkward situation as she shared a short clip with the caption 'Alton Towers was a few weekends ago and broooooo I was HUMBLED.' Nyachin filmed herself moments after being denied access, despite sitting in the 'larger chair' section of the ride. She said: 'Guys the embarrassment that I've just felt sitting on Nemesis and not being able to get on because I'm big." Nyachin then shared an urgent warning to bigger girls who love rides, as she advised: 'If you wanna go on Nemesis and you've got breasts or you're big busted, don't even think about it.' Not only did she not fit on the ride, but she also dealt with a very mortifying experience with an Alton Towers staff member too. She confirmed that the employee attempted to 'push' down the over-the-shoulder safety restraint numerous times, only to realise that the plus-size girl wouldn't fit. Cringing at the situation, the self-proclaimed ' big girl ' added: 'I sat in but it would not go over my boobs - he was was not going over my tits.' As well as this, she continued: 'The first ride I didn't go on and I was in that queue for an hour and a half… can you imagine?' The TikTok clip, which was posted under the username @ nyachinksss_, has clearly left many open-mouthed, as at the time of writing, it had quickly racked up 318,100 views, 17,200 likes and 416 comments. But it appears that this woman isn't the only one to have faced an embarrassing experience at a theme park, as many raced to the comments, eager to share similar situations that have happened to them. One person said: 'Happened to me in my early 20s. Lost 10 stone a year later!' Another added: 'This happened to me two years ago on Colossus at Thorpe Park. I was mortified and cried.' Use these tips on your next theme park trip Next time you visit a theme park, you may want to use our top tips to make the most of your adrenaline-inducing day out. Go to the back of the theme park first. Rides at the front will have the longest queues as soon as it opens. Go on water rides in the middle of the day in the summer - this will cool you off when the sun is at its hottest. Download the park's app to track which rides have the shortest queues. Visit on your birthday, as some parks give out "birthday badges" that can get you freebies. If it rains, contact the park. Depending on how much it rained, you may get a free ticket to return. A third confessed: 'This happened to me well over a year ago, I couldn't get on Air, that was my motivation to lose weight.' Meanwhile, someone else admitted: 'This happened to me on Detanator at Thorpe Park two years ago in front of the whole queue. I was mortified, the next day I started my weight loss journey and I'm now 7.5 stone down.' Not only this, but nasty trolls also emerged in the comments, rudely suggesting Nyachin should use the experience as "motivation" to slim down. One user advised: "Use it as motivation." Whilst a second chimed in: "Maybe it's time for…." Stunned by the rude remarks, one woman questioned: "Why y'all so mean in the comments?"
The Guardian
17-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
‘We'd never heard of it': a woman tells of daughter's death from mitochondrial disease
When I had my 20-week scan, Lily had a strange heartbeat. It would beat and then stop and then start beating again. The sonographer had never seen it before. I was referred by my local hospital to St George's to see a specialist and it happened again. I went back every day for a week, and then every other day for another week, but they never saw it again. I had another scan nearer Lily's due date and that time there was no blood flow between the placenta and the baby. I had to have an emergency caesarean. That was at 35 weeks. She was so tiny, 3lb 8oz, but they couldn't find anything wrong with her. After four or five weeks I was allowed to bring her home. She wasn't putting on weight. One day, when she was about seven weeks old, I was out with the kids for the day, and when I took her out of the pushchair she had stopped breathing, she was grey and foaming around the mouth. We got her to a hospital and she started breathing again. She was discharged, but a friend of mine who's a paediatric nurse advised me to take her to East Surrey hospital, where she was born and they had all her notes. We were there for 10 days while they did more tests. The doctors thought she might have a metabolic disease and blue-lighted us to the Royal Brompton to see a specialist. They agreed, but we were allowed home. We had to get a taxi back and on the way Lily stopped breathing again. I had a nurse with me who performed CPR. Lily had two cardiac arrests a couple of nights later at East Surrey and ended up at Evelina children's hospital on life support. Lily had a lumbar puncture and some more tests. They strongly suspected she had mitochondrial disease. We were told: 'I'm really sorry, there's no treatment, there's nothing we can do, Lily's going to die.' We had a muscle biopsy to confirm the diagnosis but they didn't think the result would come back before she died. Lily didn't die when they turned off life support. We took her home and she survived for six months. I used to sit up in bed with her on my tummy because I was so frightened of waking up and her not being here. I couldn't bear the thought of her being on her own. We had never heard of mitochondrial disease. After Lily died, we asked for donations instead of flowers at her funeral and there was nowhere to send them. There was no active charity dedicated to mitochondrial diseases. We thought, it's never going to change unless we do something. We just did it, we set up The Lily Foundation. We knew that in order to treat it or to find a cure, we had to be able to diagnose it properly. So we raised money for a gene-testing programme. That was a hugely successful project and it's now a routine test for mitochondrial disease. The charity has now raised more than £11m and supports more than 1,300 families and patients across the UK. Our website is full of information and we run annual meet-ups for families, for adults and for young adults. We have closed Facebook groups that bring people together. People go on there for practical advice and support as well. For parents to have an opportunity to have a baby free of these diseases that's genetically theirs, what they have done in Newcastle is not only an incredible piece of science to be celebrated, but an amazing step forward for families. It is such a tightly regulated, robust process from beginning to end, and that's something we should be extremely proud of. There will always be learning. It's a new technique and I hope it opens doors for more in the future. This is about giving families a choice when every other option has been ruled out.
The Guardian
16-07-2025
- Health
- The Guardian
‘We'd never heard of it': a woman tells of her daughter's death of mitochondrial disease
When I had my 20 week scan, Lily had a strange heartbeat. It would beat and then stop and then start beating again. The sonographer had never seen it before. I was referred by my local hospital to St George's to see a specialist and it happened again. I went back every day for a week, and then every other day for another week, but they never saw it again. I had another scan nearer Lily's due date and that time there was no blood flow between the placenta and the baby. I had to have an emergency caesarean. That was at 35 weeks. She was so tiny, 3lb 8oz, but they couldn't find anything wrong with her. After four or five weeks I was allowed to bring her home. She wasn't putting on weight. One day, when she was about seven weeks old, I was out with the kids for the day, and when I took her out of the pushchair she had stopped breathing, she was grey and foaming around the mouth. We got her to a hospital and she started breathing again. She was discharged, but a friend of mine who's a paediatric nurse advised me to take her to East Surrey hospital, where she was born and they had all her notes. We were there for 10 days while they did more tests. The doctors thought she might have a metabolic disease and blue-lighted us to the Royal Brompton to see a specialist. They agreed, but we were allowed home. We had to get a taxi back and on the way Lily stopped breathing again. I had a nurse with me who performed CPR. Lily had two cardiac arrests a couple of nights later at East Surrey and ended up at Evelina children's hospital on life support. Lily had a lumbar puncture and some more tests. They strongly suspected she had mitochondrial disease. We were told: 'I'm really sorry, there's no treatment, there's nothing we can do, Lily's going to die.' We had a muscle biopsy to confirm the diagnosis but they didn't think the result would come back before she died. Lily didn't die when they turned off life support. We took her home and she survived for six months. I used to sit up in bed with her on my tummy because I was so frightened of waking up and her not being here. I couldn't bear the thought of her being on her own. We had never heard of mitochondrial disease. After Lily died, we asked for donations instead of flowers at her funeral and there was nowhere to send them. There was no active charity dedicated to mitochondrial diseases. We thought, it's never going to change unless we do something. We just did it, we set up The Lily Foundation. We knew that in order to treat it or to find a cure, we had to be able to diagnose it properly. So we raised money for a gene-testing programme. That was a hugely successful project and it's now a routine test for mitochondrial disease. The charity has now raised more than £11m and supports more than 1,300 families and patients across the UK. Our website is full of information and we run annual meet-ups for families, for adults and for young adults. We have closed Facebook groups that bring people together. People go on there for practical advice and support as well. For parents to have an opportunity to have a baby free of these diseases that's genetically theirs, what they have done in Newcastle is not only an incredible piece of science to be celebrated, but an amazing step forward for families. It is such a tightly regulated, robust process from beginning to end, and that's something we should be extremely proud of. There will always be learning. It's a new technique and I hope it opens doors for more in the future. This is about giving families a choice when every other option has been ruled out.
