A BUSY mum thought the housework had finally got the better of her when she collapsed during a frantic cleaning spree. But Cherrie Austin, 28, woke up 10 days later from a coma to find she was paralysed . Cherrie admits that her big cleaning days are a "lot of hard work" and she sometimes "exerts herself too much".
The 28-year-old had just finished hoovering, putting the washing on and changing her bedding in February when she started to feel dizzy and went to lie down. However her partner Jonny Morcam returned home from work to find Cherrie lying on the floor of their bedroom "surrounded by sick". The next thing she remembers is waking up from a coma , paralysed.
Jonny, 37, had carried her downstairs from their first floor flat in Weymouth, Dorset, asking a stranger to help him put Cherrie into the car because she was "like dead weight" and kept "screaming" in pain. Eventually an ambulance rushed her to Dorchester hospital, where an x-ray revealed Cherrie had a collapsed lung and the doctors "had no idea what had happened". I remember lying down because I was feeling a bit dizzy and that was my last memory before I woke up from my coma The mum-of-three was then induced into a coma on 25 February, intubated to help her breathe and given a feeding tube.
Cherrie's family and close friends were called to the hospital to say goodbye to her as doctors feared she "wouldn't make it through the night". After nine days of being in the coma, she miraculously woke up - but she was paral.
