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Tue 01 Jan 2009Recovery, in broad strokes
Julie Cleary believes it was physical activity which enabled her to make an almost complete recovery from a stroke
STANDING IN her kitchen two years ago, Julie Cleary went to reach for something on the shelf and her hand decided not to respond. It was May 2006, and having represented Ireland at six orienteering World Championships, Cleary was in her prime, as fit and healthy as she had ever been. "I quickly felt everything going," she says, "by the time my husband got home from the city they were loading me into an ambulance. I would spend the next month in hospital."
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