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An eight-year-old boy s complaint to his parents that his hands were feeling funny during a family lunch became the moment his life was turned upside down. Ollie Hawes, from the NSW Mid North Coast, was playing with his cousins on a family holiday in April when his mother Helen noticed something seemed amiss. Ms Hawes said she looked away for a moment, but as she turned back to Ollie his face had drooped . The boy had suffered a significant stroke. Ollie Hawes, 8, was diagnosed with with a progressive condition called moyamoya, a rare blood vessel disorder in which the carotid artery in the skull becomes blocked or narrowed, reducing blood flow to your brain ....