I Was Given A 1% Chance To Live. This Is How I Survived Any one of the conditions I had alone is life threatening. All three together meant that I had little chance of making it through. By 27/04/2021 06:00am BST Celebrating my 23rd birthday with my family in Covent Garden, I was eating a slice of cake when I began to feet a bit of a headache. I was determined to finish my cake and coffee, of course, but when we did and I rose to leave, my legs turned to jelly and gave way. An ambulance was called, and the last memory I have of that day is a paramedic shining his torch in my eyes.