el extraordinario testimonio de la doctora claudia martÍnez.o claudia martÍnez era estudiante de medicina sintiÓ los primeros sÍntomas de una condiciÓn que cambio su vida. >>> dolor cabeza y mis brazos y piernas, se pusieron un poquito dÉbil. >>> el diagnÓstico malformaciÓn. esta condiciÓn provoca que una parte del cerebro descienda por un orificio en la base del crÁneo. ejerciendo presiÓn sobre la mÉdula espinal. recorriÓ 6 cirugÍas de cerebro en 5 aÑos. en la Última cirugÍa sufriÓ un derrame cerebral. >>> cuando despertÉ no podÍa usar los brazos y las piernas. >>> fue transferida en houston texas, continuo su rehabilitaciÓn. y en los momentos mÁs difÍciles tomÓ fuerza del ejemplo de sus padres. >>> toda mi vida veo a mi papÁ trabajar mucho, mucho, mucho. para darme la educaciÓn que Él no tuvo. entonces yo querÍa hacer lo que podÍa para soÑar y ser doctora. >>> retomÓ sus estudios y en mall del 2020 se graduÓ. comparte el tÍtulo con su mamÁ. >>> ella era mis manos cuando no podÍa cribir. cuando yo no podÍa usar mi computadora. >>> se especiali

claudia martinez has wanted to be a doctor since she was a little girl.ses in college, she started having troubling symptoms. >> i started getting headaches. i started getting numbness and tingling in my legs and it got to a point where i would stand up and i would fall. i would start blacking out. >> reporter: diagnosed with chiari malformation, she needed immediate surgery. >> i've had six major brain surgeries. >> reporter: during her last brain surgery while still attending medical school, an unexpected complication. >> i had a stroke that left me unable to function from the neck down. >> reporter: but it didn't stop her from pursuing her dream. >> people around me were very diligently telling me that i needed to leave medicine. >> reporter: in rehab for a year, she worked hard. regaining most of the function she had lost. >> i had to relearn how to do absolutely everything. i had to learn how to sit up. i had to learn how to walk again. i had to learn how to brush my teeth again. >> reporter: now, five years later, she's back in the very same hospita

martinez. of course you can watch it right here on ktvu tomorrow morning on the nine you're going to take sal and andre with you and frank mallicoat and claudiapared for sunshine. that's what are you gonna eat? oh dave, we don't do we have time because there's a lot to eat in martinez. let me tell you but i know you like breakfast, so i will say that there is a very good breakfast place up there. i'll let you know. okay there's probably a few, but there's one that i found anyway. let's go out and take a look at speaking of breakfast. you may want to take that to go get on the road as soon as you can, because this is beginning to be the crunch time when all the commute start getting really busy, and that's simple reason you can see 5 80 88 year allow little bit slower than they were earlier. i think people if they're anything like my household drop the kids off and then get on the road. go to the office. so that's what's going on how we four pittsburgh bay point, some slowing 6, 80 concord, walnut creek, there was a stalled vehicle set down 6 80 in the vicinity of treats, so that's going to be slowing the traffic san mateo bridge looks okay, t