By Carol Davis
PUBLISHED: 17:30 EST, 24 September 2012 | UPDATED: 17:30 EST, 24 September 2012
Mel Strzebrakowska was just 15 and celebrating her fathers birthday at home when she suffered her stroke.
She remembers nothing about that day apart from waking up in intensive care.
I tried to scramble out of bed, but my legs collapsed, and my right hand wouldnt work either, says Mel, now 24, a retail assistant from Warlingham in Surrey.
On suffering a stroke at 15: 'I couldn't take it in. I was so young. I couldn't believe it had happened to me,' said Mel Strzebrakowska
I didnt know what was wrong. Then the doctors told me Id had a stroke.
'I couldnt take it in. I was so young. I couldnt believe it had happened to me.
Every year around 150,000 Britons suffer a stroke, where either a blockage in the blood supply deprives the brain of oxygen, or a bleed in the brain causes damage to nerve cells and function.
Risk factors include high blood pressure, diabetes and heart disease.
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