HeyJaredRecovery After Stroke
Recovery After Stroke is the go-to podcast for stroke survivors, caregivers, and anyone seeking real answers and hope after stroke.Hosted by three-time stroke survivor, author, and recovery coach Bill Gasiamis, this show shares powerful interviews with stroke survivors,…
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423. Learning to Cry After Stroke - Bobby Chaggar (opens the original)
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Ramandeep "Bobby" Chaggar is a veterinary surgeon originally from India, now living in Melbourne. In December 2023, he had a right ischaemic pontine stroke and had to find out, in real time, whether the belief he grew up with was actually true.
422. He Was 16 When a Stroke Ended His Football Career — Benjamin Miller on Identity, Substances, and Finding His Way Back (opens the original)
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He was 16 years old. On September 22, 2017, everything changed. Benjamin Miller was a football player in Texas when a carotid artery dissection ended his career and split his sense of self in two. His brain began to recover. His identity didn't know how. What followed the substances, the silence, and the search for meaning is the story this episode is about. In this conversation with Bill Gasiamis, Benjamin opens up about what it's really like to have a stroke as a teenager, what nobody tells yo
421. Losing My Career and Myself, Then Choosing Who I'd Be - Cassie Jewell (opens the original)
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Cassie Jewell is a counsellor and author who was running behavioural health programs inside a US jail when, at 42, an ischaemic stroke in her right basal ganglia arrived two days after she was demoted from the job she had built her life around. In this conversation, she and Bill talk about perfectionism, the coping habits that stop working, the strange overconfidence that can follow a right-hemisphere stroke, and what it takes to rebuild an identity you actually like.
420. Stroke With No Warning Signs - Tom Ballo's One Bad Day in Eighteen Months (opens the original)
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At sixty-five, Tom Ballo's stroke gave no warning at all — and eighteen months later, he says he's had exactly one bad day. Tom Ballo is a retired telecoms litigator of 32 years who suffered a massive hemorrhagic stroke at 65 with no warning signs — found by his five-year-old granddaughter. In this episode, he opens up about what recovery has actually looked like eighteen months on, including what's gotten easier and what hasn't. → What a stroke with zero warning signs actually feels like → Why
419. Jonathan & Letitia Hritz: Keeping a Promise Through Stroke, Seizures, and Everything After (opens the original)
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She survived a stroke at 34, but three years later, a new fear moved in: seizures she sometimes can't feel coming. Jonathan and Letitia Hritz join Bill to share what's happened since Letitia's ischemic stroke at 34 the diagnosis doctors almost missed on New Year's Day, the promise Jonathan made at her bedside, and the wave of new-onset seizures that's reshaped their family since January 2026. Letitia is now a licensed practical nurse, still fighting to finish the RN degree her stroke
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