{"id":338268,"date":"2026-03-10T06:19:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338268\/"},"modified":"2026-03-10T06:19:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T06:19:09","slug":"living-with-migraine-id-be-sitting-having-a-conversation-and-within-a-split-second-i-would-lose-power-on-my-left-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/338268\/","title":{"rendered":"Living with migraine: \u2018I\u2019d be sitting having a conversation and within a split second, I would lose power on my left side\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\">\nCatherine Hearns had her first migraine headache after the birth of her second child. As her symptoms worsened to include face droop and loss of power on her left side, she was eventually diagnosed with hemiplegic migraine. Now she has developed a non medical toolkit to help other sufferers\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Catherine Hearns at home in Portlaoise. Photo: Steve Humphreys\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/3e5652f8-aa66-4a64-ad72-8dc80b630fbb.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)\">Catherine Hearns at home in Portlaoise. Photo: Steve Humphreys<\/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)\">There are people in life who never give up, no matter what life throws at them  and entrepreneur Catherine Hearns is one of those people.<\/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)\">Hearns \u2014 who grew up in Abbeyleix, Co Laois, and now lives in nearby Portlaoise \u2014 is one of life\u2019s grafters, and had a part-time job from an early age.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Catherine Hearns had her first migraine headache after the birth of her second child. As her symptoms worsened&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":338269,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[103,61,60,898,29782,128197,128198],"class_list":["post-338268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-latest-news-ticker","tag-service-journalism","tag-shp","tag-signature-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338268","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=338268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338268\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}