Convinced she was having a stroke, the 81-year-old from Wymondham remembered it was critical that she received medical help as soon as possible.

She immediately called the emergency services, fearing the worst.

“I assumed I would die,” she said. “As my mother and grandmother did, and I thought I would have the same fate.

"It was something I had been waiting for.

“I dialled 999 because I genuinely thought I was having a stroke. I knew it wasn't a heart attack.”

But what she revealed next led to a different diagnosis altogether.

After paramedics........

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