A mother who suffered up to 15 mini-strokes a day and was so worried she would die that she wrote a goodbye letter for her baby son says surgery saved her life.Kate Sippel, 39, from , initially wrote off early signs as due to being unfit after pregnancy. But after she collapsed at home and was 'paralyzed for 30 seconds' just three months after giving birth to her son, John David, she went to the ER.Doctors initially put her condition down to struggling with the stress of being a new mother after having a C-section. But Sippel, who works as a veterinarian, sought out other medics who diagnosed her with the rare condition moyamoya, where a narrowing or blockage in arteries at the back of the head limits blood supply to the brain triggering strokes.
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