‘Every year, I am grateful to be alive,’ says presenter Ghislaine Plag who came close to death after giving birth.

He fell off his bike, flipped on the street and was in a coma for three weeks. Since then, the father of Lisan Mutsers from Utrecht has been one of the four million Dutch people living with a brain disorder. “My strong dad still fights every day. I hope he manages to be happy again,” says Lisan in the run-up to the ‘brain awareness week’ of the Hersenstichting.

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