Dawn's Degree: Life with Locked-In Syndrome
Aug 06, 2014, 09:32 AM
(Broadcast on BBC Stoke & BBC WM, August 2014)
A mother from Rugeley who has locked-in syndrome and can only communicate using her eyes has completed a university degree.
42-year-old Dawn Faizey Webster suffered a stroke while pregnant 11 years ago.
She and her premature son survived.
But Dawn spent months in a hospital bed before her family realised that despite her body being paralysed her mind remained the same.
Today, as her family celebrate the end of her degree -- which took weeks at a time to write each exam paper -- our reporter Emma Thomas has been to them at their home in Rugeley....