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Sophie Bell, 17, had a common cold that gave her a "headache basically every day"

The London teen was bedridden due to pain, and woke up to her eye swollen "like a golf ball"

Doctors said she had a "life-threatening" infection that had spread to her brain, requiring the teen to undergo brain surgery

A teen who dismissed her irritated eyes as a side effect of a cold ended up with a near-fatal infection — one that required brain surgery to save her life.

Sophie Bell, a 17-year-old from London, said her symptoms first started with headaches from a run-of-the-mill virus. She “just didn't feel 100 percent," Bell said, per The London Standard. This headache I had was from a common cold , I had a headache basically every day,”

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