Beating Locked In Syndrome | Clodah Dunlop EP 38 (2020)

Clodah Dunlop is a police officer that experienced a brain stem stroke in 2015 and woke to find herself locked into an unresponsive body with no means of communication other than the ability to blink. Her recovery from stroke and locked-in syndrome took time but creative ways of communicating with her partner brought some much-needed humor to an otherwise bleak situation.

00:00 Clodah before the stroke
10:32 My heart stopped
16:49 I was being held prisoner by my own body
22:07 Coming out of locked-in syndrome
27:27 Using blinks to communicate
29:42 Importance of humor in recovery
42:51 Caseworker’s bad bedside manners

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