Brittany Allen had a stroke on a plane at a young age. She was only 29 at that time.
The designer was headed from Los Angeles to Austin in an airplane. She had a stroke in 2019 and couldn't walk off the plane.
Out of nowhere, it happened mid-fight, and it was unexpected as she was very healthy in her 20s.
After two hours, the plane landed; she tried to get off after everyone left but could not balance herself, and the pilot called 911.
When the pediatrician mentioned she was having panic attacks, she believed it was more serious than that.
She woke up the next day after coming to the hospital and learned about her stroke.
Project Runway All-Star competitor used to work out two to three days a week and has no underlying conditions, so she felt it crazy that something like that happened to her.
As she mentioned on The Blind Leap podcast, She was fully paralyzed on the right side of her body.
Days after that, her husband dropped a penny, and she went down to pick it up and couldn't use her hand to pick it up.
Her hands didn't move, and she felt sorry for herself for about a week.
She couldn't climb the stairs, write her name, pick up a fork, or even smile because the right side of her face didn't exactly function like it used to.
She used to sleep a lot and wondered what she gonna do in her life.
Back and forth, they call doctors, trying to get in to see what happened to get to the deeper root of it.
The hospital suggests taking a six to eight-month appointment with her neurologist.
However, she can't wait that long and decides it's not going to be her life as she has worked so hard for this.
It was the time when she applied for two different shows, including Project Runway, but she hadn't gotten any interviews to get back to the finals.
She used to do physical therapy 10 hours a day. Jess King and John Michael Di Spirito helped her make a full recovery.
After rehab, she fully recovered in six weeks. It changed her life for the better.
This put her back in a place where it made her appreciate every little thing in her life.
After she shared her story with people, she found it common, and it could happen to young people.
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