{"id":156537,"date":"2025-11-24T05:41:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156537\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T05:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T05:41:11","slug":"debbie-deegan-id-had-a-stroke-and-my-voice-was-gone-i-was-lying-there-thinking-if-ive-no-voice-what-am-i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/156537\/","title":{"rendered":"Debbie Deegan: I\u2019d had a stroke and my voice was gone. I was lying there thinking, \u2018If I\u2019ve no voice, what am I?\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nWhen Debbie Deegan suffered a mini stroke, she was in hospital for weeks, couldn\u2019t sit up, and lost her voice. But when her son Mikey came home to look after her, the AI voice agent he developed to help her regain her speech proved invaluable\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Debbie Deegan and her son Mikey\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BBIE DEEGAN 4SH (2).jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Debbie Deegan and her son Mikey<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The morning of Debbie Deegan\u2019s stroke in May of this year, she had tried lion\u2019s mane mushrooms for the first time, for breakfast. \u201cI\u2019m in a WhatsApp food group, we\u2019re called The Rabbits. I sent a photograph to everybody. And they were all asking, well, tell us what it\u2019s like. So I ate it \u2013 big hairy thing. And the second I ate it, I felt wonky. I said to the food group, \u2018I feel like I\u2019m drunk.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">The food group are called The Rabbits because they pretend to be vegetarians. \u201cNone of us really are. It\u2019s going years. We share recipes and we talk about latest foods, about ten or 12 of us.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When Debbie Deegan suffered a mini stroke, she was in hospital for weeks, couldn\u2019t sit up, and lost&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782],"class_list":{"0":"post-156537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-latest-news-ticker","12":"tag-service-journalism"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}