When Laura Critchley struggled to speak during a work meeting, she was told to go home. But once she got into her car, she couldn’t remember how to start it.

The 40-year-old mom told Newsweek : "Initially, I thought I was having a panic attack as I was hosting the meeting. I could read the words on the screen but couldn’t say them.

"Then, I got into my car, and I knew something wasn’t right with my head.”

A Rapid Decline

Critchley’s sudden amnesia worsened as she was taken to her mother’s house in Yorkshire, England, and an ambulance was called. Medics suspected a stroke, but two CT (computerized tomography) scans revealed eight tumors in her brain , one of which was bleeding—explaining why she deteriorated so quickly.

Her partner, Lee Vaughan, 50, told Newsweek : “Laura went fr

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