The Sunday NY Times did a feature on Stewart's bout with a brain infection that took her off the air for several months. Last February, she found it difficult to talk. She went to WNYC to prepare her weekday Noon to 2pm show and found it increasingly hard to form words and speak. At the hospital she was told she needed emergency surgery. It turns out the brain surgeon is a devoted MTV fan who remembers the days when Stewart worked for the channel.
He cut open her skull and removed 3.5 centimeters of material from the left hemisphere. Luckily it was not cancer. It was an abscess caused by bacteria and a staph infection. Stewart, who is 58, is now back on the air. How fortunate we all are for the advances in modern medicine!
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He cut open her skull and removed 3.5 centimeters of material from the left hemisphere. Luckily it was not cancer. It was an abscess caused by bacteria and a staph infection. Stewart, who is 58, is now back on the air. How fortunate we all are for the advances in modern medicine!
The NY Times article is behind a pay wall.
Her Job Was Talking on the Radio. Then Suddenly, Words Wouldn’t Come.
One day last winter, Alison Stewart, the host of “All of It” on WNYC, was alarmed to find herself speaking gibberish.