Fergus Farrell

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342 appearances 2 recordings 1 series first heard Apr 2026 last heard 21 Aug

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The Claire Byrne Show · Fergus Farrell aims raise €1 million for Spinal Injuries Ireland · 22 Apr 2026 podcast

So a couple of days after having the operation done, the surgeon sat down beside me and said, look, at 72 hours, if you get movement, you have a 5% chance of regaining some sort of strength.

5%?

Yeah, they didn't say walking.

And if 72 hours pass by and you have nothing,

your stats have gone to 0%.

So obviously I fought for those 72 hours and I guess I did walk in here, but I didn't get any movement after 72 hours.

It was 21 days later and I always remember that moment, half two at night, I moved that big right toe.

Now I'm moved by a fraction, but I said from there on out, I had something to latch onto.

And you know yourself, when you have a progress, you can stay motivated and you can stay fighting.

And that's what I did.

Yeah, yeah, I was.

Because, look, all I had is I was completely paralysed.

I'd lost my centre of gravity.

I'd lost my bowels, my bladder.

And I was being looked after by a team of amazing people.

But all I could use was my head at the time, you know.

I didn't have any physical... I had my arms.

but I couldn't move in the bed.

So I had to use the tools I had in my box.

And one of those tools was visualization, something that I used all my life, but I didn't realize how powerful it was.

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