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OVER €25,000 was raised through a GoFundMe campaign to help Shannon woman Joanne Begley with the costs of vital surgery in Barcelona. In 2018 Joanne was diagnosed with a rare condition called Chiari Malformation, a herniation of the brain where it protrudes into the spinal canal. While there is no cure for it, its progression can be managed. “I had two brain surgeries in Cork, one in 2018 and one in 2019. I was kind of left with a leak, a psuedomeningocele, it affected my balance, my sleep and the pain and stuff. They said in Ireland there was nothing more they could do for me. I went to Dublin for a second opinion, but they couldn’t do anything with the condition I have. It’s just getting progressively worse, I wake up every morning and my hands are stuck because the fluid around my brain isn’t going up and down properly,” she says. While there was nothing more that she …
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