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Hereford & Worcester,3 mins

Kidderminster's Sophie: 'How I got a new skull'

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The 24-year-old received a pioneering operation for a second chance at life, following a horrendous car crash in 2018, in Bewdley. She was left in a coma, had three strokes, and spent three weeks in intensive care. Surgeons had to remove most of her skull to save her life - leaving her on a waiting list for a replacement, in the knowledge that any knock to the head could prove fatal. At one point Sophie Price was given a temporary titanium skull, which had to be removed after it got infected. Now, two years after we took up her plight, she has had her operation, with surgeons giving her a new permanent skull made of 'bone cement'. Tom Edwards reports with step-dad Lee, mum Andrea and Sophie's partner, Josh.

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