Beating Locked-In Syndrome
Clodah Dunlop is a police officer that experienced a brain stem stroke in 2015 and woke to find herself locked-in an unresponsive body with no means of communication other than the ability to blink.
Highlights:
01:25 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
