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Sat 01 Jan 2010'Locked-in syndrome is like wearing a straitjacket'
KATHLEEN KENT:Nearly six years on from a massive stroke which left her unable to move, eat, drink or speak, Kathleen Kent has found a way to live and communicate again, writes KATE HOLMQUIST
IT WAS AN ordinary day: February 25th, 2004. Thirty-five-year-old Kathleen Kent said goodbye to her husband, Brendan, and sent her two sons, Conor (then seven months) and Seán (then three years old), off to playschool, at the start of a busy day off from her accountancy practice in Co Waterford. “Little did I know that that was the last time I would be able to kiss and hug Brendan or my children, or that was the last time they would hear my voice. I would never walk out of my house again.”
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