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A fortnight on and Zak Hardaker is still counting his blessings. 'It could have been a different story,' admits the new Leeds Rhinos signing. 'It's really scary when you start thinking about it.'

The scary incident Hardaker is reliving took place after he returned home from his first day of training with the Rhinos and took his 18-month-old son Abel out on his tricycle.

'About 20 minutes into the walk, I just started feeling a little bit dizzy,' explains the 30-year-old. 'I became really light and a bit foggy.

'I knew I wasn't great. I tried to phone my partner and she wasn't answering. I had to make a decision. I just thought I'd try get home as quick as I can.'

But Hardaker did not make it home. 'Apparently I fell over and smashed my head on the floor, which caused a fit,' he says. 'There was quite a bit of blood coming out of my head.'

Hardaker had suffered a seizure and was unconscious. What could have happened next does not bear thinking about. But this is where his luck was in.

'When I came round I was just sat in the middle of the street,' he recalls. 'The first thing I did was think, 'Where's my son?'. I made sure I could touch him. Then there was a woman straight in my face.'

The woman, it transpires, was a local paramedic named Rosie. 'It just so happened that I fell outside her house,' admits Hardaker. 'I think her husband saw me fall over.

'I didn't really know what had gone on. I tried to stand up and said I wanted to go home, but she ordered an ambulance.

'Could I have died? I really don't know. It could have been a different matter if no one was there or if my son got off his tricycle and toddled off somewhere.

'I was really fortunate that something as serious as this happened right outside the door of someone who knows exactly how to deal with such situations.

'I don't think I can

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