Episode 2: Chapter 1 - Sally Callie - Recovery from a stroke on the operating table (Stroke) - Rowing, life & suffering a stroke.
In this second episode, we meet Sally Callie, a triple Olympian, a world record holder and an U23 world champion in the sport of rowing, who's also a mother, a teacher and a stroke survivor. Following the birth of Sally's second child in 2011 she experienced a seizure and upon returning to hospital discovered that she had a blood vessel deep within her brain which was ready to rupture. Sally needed to undergo brain surgery to remove the blood vessel and though this was successful, she awoke from the surgery to find that she could not move half of her body.
In this first chapter we meet Sally and hear about her life before her stroke and how she got into the sport of rowing. She describes the events leading to the stroke itself and her time in acute her immediately following it.
Transcripts and show notes are available for each episode on the podcast website: storiesofrecovery.buzzsprout.com
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^Sally's main tips