A five-year-old girl has been hailed a hero after spotting the warning signs of a stroke in her mother. Lose Tafuna was being driven to school by her mother Robyn Tafuna in 2021 when the little girl noticed something awry from her booster seat in the back of the car. WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Five-year-old girl hailed a hero for spotting the warning signs of stroke.
Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download today “As I was taking her to school, Lose asked me, ‘Why is your smile funny, why (are) you talking funny?’,” Robyn, from Boronia in Melbourne’s east, said. Having worked in the medical field for two decades, Robyn, who was 40 years old at the time, immediately recognised she was in the early stages of a stroke. “I didn’t want to upset Lose, so I dropped her off and drove the two minutes back home and called an ambulance.
” Robyn underwent several tests at St Vincent’s Hospital, which confirmed the diagnosis. When her condition worsened several days later, she was rushed into the operating room to relieve the pressure on her brain. “Apparently my family had all been called in to say goodbye to me because the doctors thought that was it, I was gonna die,” Robyn said.
The now 44-year-old was sent home after 10 days but struggled with her fine motor skills and mood swings. Three-and-a-half years on, she still suffers from the side effects of the stroke and is unable to work or drive. “I’ve been left with epilepsy and a lot of fatigue from the stroke,�.