India, Sept. 23 -- A woman claimed that she almost died after she yawned too hard one morning. She said that she saw her newborn daughter yawn and went to do the same, but felt an "electric shock sensation" go through her body, which later left her in need of a risky surgery and with permanent spine damage.

"Most people start their day with a big yawn and you'd never expect it to end up the way it did for me," Hayley Black told the Sun. "I instinctively yawned and stretched, and straight away I felt this immediate electric shock sensation go through half my body."

"My arm got stuck in the air and I was having these electric spark sensations," she added.

Black said that she felt like having a seizure in half of her body, adding that at ...