00:00My name's Kerry Hurd. I live in Sheffield. I'm 49, well I was 49 years old at the time that this
00:07happened. During the middle of Covid, I was called up to have the Covid vaccine. I had my Covid
00:14vaccine on the 1st of April 2021. Unfortunately, unlike most people, I had an adverse reaction to
00:22it. It caused a blood clot in my brain which then led to me having a stroke and I'm now paralysed
00:28down my left hand side. I've learned to walk again in a fashion. It's not great but I can
00:36do a walking stick and it was a splint. I've got no movement back in my arm or my left hand.
00:43They're paralysed now. Following the stroke, I had to learn how to eat again. I had to learn
00:49how to walk again. I had to learn how to speak again. I was in a coma for four and a half weeks.
00:56My family were told that I wasn't likely to make it through the night
01:00and were given a 60-40 chance, with the 40 chance in my favour
01:06of survival. I had to have a craniotomy.
01:13Eventually, I had a cranioplasty to put because I had my skull missing for nearly two years,
01:18or two and a half years. I didn't have that put, I didn't have plates put back in my head until
01:23August 2023. So for all that time, I had to wear a protective hat because I've got no skull.
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