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Hazel O’Connor expected to recover after suffering health scare, says brother
a post to Hazel’s Tumblr account, on Monday (January 17), Neil O’Connor shared an “important announcement” about his sister. According to the post, Hazel had been found unresponsive at her home in the south west of France.After being taken to a local hospital, it was determined that she’d had a “bleeding on the brain” and that she should be transferred to a major hospital where her condition could more effectively monitored.Neil’s post added that things were “touch and go, and the next 24 hours would determine how her recovery may go”.Now, in a new update, Neil told BBC CWR that Hazel has been showing positive signs of improvement and that “everything is pointing to a recovery but it is going to take time”.“We all thought it would be more devastating than it seems to be now,” he said, explaining that doctors thought she would need to have brain surgery but, upon being moved to a larger hospital, experts found the bleeding had receded.A post shared by Hazel O'Connor (@hazeloconnorofficial)He added that since coming out of the coma, his sister had started to relearn motor skills, including swallowing.