Woman Killed By “Headache”

A devastated father told how his fit and healthy 23-year-old daughter died just 48 hours after being admitted to hospital with a headache.
Travel consultant Kathy Kurtanjek was taken to hospital by her parents believing she was suffering from a bad headache but doctors transferred her to a specialist brain unit.
Emergency surgery was carried out on a burst cyst in her brain, but she died shortly afterwards, devastating her family and friends as they prepare to attend her funeral service today.
Her father, Michael Kurtanjek, said because she had recently signed the organ donor register, Kathy will go on to help 20 other seriously ill people.
Mr. Kurtanjek, from Copthorne, near Crawley, West Sussex, said: "It was the most tragic 48 hours.
We are all devastated. It is even more of a terrible tragedy because Kathy was only 23, and due to turn 24 on October 23.
"Like everybody, we all get headaches but this was a lot more serious than we would ever have imagined. Despite the very valiant efforts of the doctors, she went into a coma and never recovered."
Kathy, who had graduated from the University of Hull with a 2:1 honours degree in psychology and sociology, was taken ill on August 20 and went to East Surrey Hospital in Redhill, Surrey.
She was then transferred to St George's Hospital in Tooting, south-west London, in an ambulance with a police escort. Surgeons performed an emergency operation after finding a cyst causing fluid on the brain, but she died on August 22.