In 1979, when he was 15 years old, a boy was going by train from his home in Windsor, Ontario, Canada, to join his parents who were visiting in Toronto, Ontario. He got off the train, carrying a heavy suitcase by his right hand. He walked the length of the train platform, downstairs, across the train station, then upstairs and across a wide plaza to where his parents were waiting to pick him up. He lifted the suitcase up into the trunk of the car and got into the back seat. About 30 seconds later, as his father was making a left turn about a block from the train station, he fell over in the back seat, unconscious. He was taken to hospital in Toronto, and then a couple of days later was transferred to my hospital in London, Ontario because it was closer to his home.
It turned out that he was born with an extra rib in his neck called a cervical rib. This is a rare abnormality; it happens in about 1 in 500 people, and strokes from this are very rare.

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