Can you imagine being trapped in your own body? Able to see & hear everything going on around you but unable to move or speak
- the blink of an eye your only way to communicate. Super-fit young mother-of-three Kate Allatts life was torn apart when she became locked in her own body after suffering a massive stroke caused by a blood clot to her brainstem. Left totally paralysed & unable to speak her chances of survival were 50/50 & doctors said she would never walk or talk again. She wanted to die. But her family & best friends willed her to live & with their love & support she channelled her sense of fun & fighting spirit into making a miracle recovery that amazed medical experts. Using a letter chart Kate blinked the words I will walk again A. Soon she was moving her thumb & communicating with the world via Facebook. Eight months later she said goodbye to nurses & walked out of hospital to return home & start training for her first run."