In the third episode of the Raspberry Talks Podcast, we speak with 31 year-old Jessica Jones, who was just 29 when she had a hemorhegic stroke and ended up having brainstem surgery just 6 weeks later. Following a 16-hour operation and 6 weeks in hospital, where Jess lost her speech, her eyesight, and her mobility, she's trying to rebuild her life now. She speaks about her diagnosis, the shock of finding out that she'd had a stroke, to then being told she had a cavernoma - someth...
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In the third episode of the Raspberry Talks Podcast, we speak with 31 year-old Jessica Jones, who was just 29 when she had a hemorhegic stroke and ended up having brainstem surgery just 6 weeks later. Following a 16-hour operation and 6 weeks in hospital, where Jess lost her speech, her eyesight, and her mobility, she's trying to rebuild her life now. She speaks about her diagnosis, the shock of finding out that she'd had a stroke, to then being told she had a cavernoma - someth...
Ep 1 - Joel Roberts - "They sacrificed my legs to save my arms."
The Raspberry Talks by The Cavernoma Society
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Ep 1 - Joel Roberts - "They sacrificed my legs to save my arms."
In our first episode of The Raspberry Talks Podcast, Simona speaks with Joel Roberts, who was paralysed from the waist down following his spinal cavernoma diagnosis and surgery. Joel's life changed overnight at the age of 28, when he walked into hospital with a 'numb leg' below the knee, and 6 months later exited a spinal rehabilitation unit in a wheelchair. Joel is paralysed from the waist down, following emergency surgery to remove a cavernoma from his spinal cord, which severed his...
The Raspberry Talks by The Cavernoma Society
In the third episode of the Raspberry Talks Podcast, we speak with 31 year-old Jessica Jones, who was just 29 when she had a hemorhegic stroke and ended up having brainstem surgery just 6 weeks later. Following a 16-hour operation and 6 weeks in hospital, where Jess lost her speech, her eyesight, and her mobility, she's trying to rebuild her life now. She speaks about her diagnosis, the shock of finding out that she'd had a stroke, to then being told she had a cavernoma - someth...
