Gareth O’Callaghan Pens Memoir Following Neurological Disease Diagnosis.MP3

In 2018, after receiving a life-changing diagnosis, Gareth O’Callaghan retired from fulltime work and gave up a career in radio that spanned four decades.

In a deeply personal memoir, What Matters Now, he tells his story of love and hope.

From the moments after his doctor uttered the words Multiple System Atrophy – a neurological disease that is both progressive and incurable, and ultimately carries a fatal prognosis – to how, drawing on inner reserves and determination, he pulled himself from the darkness to come to terms with a new way of living, his memoir bares all.

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On Monday’s Morning Focus, Gavin Grace spoke to Gareth about the book.