415. Kylie Ralston: Stroke, Bulgaria, and the Friend Who Flew Across the World

What happens when the person legally responsible for your medical decisions is your teenage daughter, thousands of kilometres from home? Kylie Ralston was 56, living and working in Bulgaria, when a haemorrhagic stroke put her in an induced coma for four days. With no next of kin in the country but her 19-year-old daughter, and a public hospital system offering almost no rehabilitation, Kylie's recovery became a fight fought by the people around her. Her childhood friend Nicole Nott, an occupational therapist, dropped everything and flew from Australia to intervene.