What to know

• Doctors linked Olivia's stroke to severe inflammation in an artery supplying her neck, believed to have been triggered by a prior chickenpox infection.
• Olivia, who already had mild cerebral palsy from a premature birth, temporarily lost movement on her left side, developed slurred speech and facial drooping.
• She spent almost eight weeks in hospital, including specialist treatment at Edinburgh's Royal Hospital for Children, before beginning a long recovery.
• Her mother Rebecca has founded the charity 'Olivia's Steps' after the ordeal, which multiple outlets reported on in August 2026.

Olivia Elliot Patient, now age fiveRebecca Olivia's mother, 31, from West Lothian, Scotland