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Girl who thought she had sickness bug ended up with part of skull in stomach
A girl has relearned how to walk, talk and swallow after undergoing an operation rarely carried out on children, in which doctors stored part of her skull in her stomach.
Ellie Morris-Davies, who is now 16, had nine surgeries in the space of 13 weeks last year after being diagnosed with a cavernoma - a cluster of abnormal blood vessels that looks like a raspberry - which does not often have symptoms. At one point, she worried she would "never go home" from hospital, but her mother, Joanne Morris-Davies, said she is now working "relentlessly" to get back to her passion of dancing and performing on stage.
In May last year, Ellie, who was then 15, began suffering from persistent headaches and nausea and became sensitive to light. She was soon vomiting up to 16 times a day and, following blood tests and an MRI, Ellie was diagnosed with a bleed on her brain caused by a cavernoma.
It can cause seizures, headaches, and other neurological problems such as dizziness and slurred speech, but one in 600 people in the UK have symptomless cavernoma, according to the NHS. A cavernoma with symptoms is diagnosed in around one person in every 400,000, usually aged between 20 and 40.
Mrs Morris-Davies, 48, from Crewe, said she was hoping it was "just a bad migraine.
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