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Paramedic is Partially Paralyzed After Cracking Her Neck Triggered a Stroke

A 23-year-old paramedic is speaking out after a neck crack caused a major artery in her spine to rupture, resulting in a stroke.

Natalie Kunicki works for the London Ambulance Service and was watching movies in bed with a friend after a night out on March 4 when she stretched her neck and heard a loud crack, the Daily Mail reports.  

When she got up to use the bathroom 15 minutes later, Natalie said she collapsed and couldn't move her left leg. 

The embarrassed paramedic at first refused to call emergency services, as she originally mistook her own symptoms for inebriation and did not want her colleagues to see her "tipsy."

One she finally called, an ambulance rushed her to the University College London Hospital where physicians confirmed she suffered a stroke and would need emergency surgery, so she was transferred to the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, where, during a three-hour surgery, doctors discovered and fixed her burst artery.

Natalie's left side was initially rendered completely paralyzed by the stroke. Through physical therapy, she says she has been able to regain some use of her leg, arm and hand, although she describes her movements as "clumsy."

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