--- In crossroadsonline@yahoogroups.com, "marksplace09uk"
<marksplaceuk@...> wrote:
>
>
http://www.crossroadsnetwork.co.uk/newsmf/index.php/topic,572.0.html
>
> Lynette McMorrough has suffered a stroke. Her husband, Nick Wilton.
> has set
> up a blog to report on her recovery. www.howslynette.blogspot.com.
She
> is currently having physiotheraphy in hospital.
>
> Swift thrombolysis by stroke nurses saves 'fairy godmother'
> Published: 28 January 2009 10:22 Author: Steve Ford More by this
> Author Last
> Updated: 28 January 2009 10:31 Reader Responses
>
> Ms McMorrough (front) with members of the Basildon stroke team
including
> Beth Smyth, stroke specialist nurse (far right)
>
> An actress is recovering after being given emergency stroke
treatment at
> Basildon University Hospital when she collapsed during a
performance of
> Cinderella.
> Lynette McMorrough, 53, has had roles in Crossroads and daytime
soap
> Doctors, but was playing the role of the Fairy Godmother at the
Thameside
> Theatre in Grays, when she became ill on 29 December.
>
> Ms McMorrough was taken to Basildon University Hospital, where
after an
> assessment including a CT scan, she was identified as a patient who
> could be
> thrombolysed.
>
> Beth Smyth, specialist nurse for stroke at the hosptial, said: 'We
started
> thrombolysing patients in Mid-September 2008 and since then we have
> assessed
> 35 patients and six have been given the treatment.
>
> 'Early intervention by the nursing specialist team makes sure the
> damage is
> limited. Thrombolysing the patient dissolves the blood clot,
helping to
> prevent lasting disabilities and allows for a better recovery,' he
added.
>
> Jennifer Marshall, ward manager for Pasteur Ward, the hospital's
acute
> stroke unit, said: 'We are not yet able to thrombolyse patients
24/7
> but we
> hope this is something we can offer in the future.'
>


Poor Lynette. She's no age and you tend to think of stroke
sufferers being over 60/70. I wish her a speedy recovery.

Patsy