When Sheldon Saggers woke up one morning in May this year, she expected to get up and get ready for work.

But as she opened her eyes, she realised her vision was blurry and she was seeing double.

The 30-year-old called her fiancé Zac Montague who immediately asked why she was speaking differently.

“It just felt really weird. I was in a lot of pain. It felt like my head was swollen and under pressure. When I left the house, I realised I couldn’t walk straight,” Ms Saggers said.

It took two days for Ms Saggers to be diagnosed with a stroke, joining a growing number of young Australians who suffer a “brain attack.”

Wearing an eye patch to cope with her double vision, Ms Saggers and Mr Montague went to an urgent care clinic that morning where a doctor told her she had a migraine and to go

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