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BOSTON ( WCVB ) -- A breakthrough treatment is giving a Boston man a new lease on life after suffering a stroke at just 29 years old.

Twenty-nine-year-old Chris Jacquith is training for the Boston Marathon just months after suffering a stroke.

"I stood up off the couch and I immediately fell backwards, lost my balance. My right leg was kind of stiff, and so we're like, OK, this is very odd," Jacquith said.

His symptoms got worse throughout the day.

"I couldn't really use my hands," he said.

Jacquith rushed to Tufts Medical Center, where doctors confirmed he was in the middle of a stroke.

"As I got out of that CAT scan, they were like, you're in the middle of a cerebellar stroke, you're going to be okay, but we're going to monitor vitals and kee

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