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Male, 44, farnborough - United Kingdom, member since Apr 2008
hello my name is colin nixon and i suffered a carotid aertry dissection in 2005 which led to a brain bleed and a stroke. causing paraylsis on the left hand side. before this i was a drummer in a semi pro band, mo indigo and in the second year as a mature student studyin...
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Jul 03
Happy Independence day! Hi I hope all is well with you. I hope you have a safe and healthy 4th.
May 02
In the end that I believe was my mentor and healer. I have a lot of faith Colin now. With only the assistance Colin of the medial profession I got well because sometimes they hindered me with all they did. I had to use careful, and sometimes persistent determination and will to face them and go my own way when they were pushing me to do some things I felt were not the best for me. Yet I did nothing without a lot of spiritual guidance and prayer. I'm not much of a church goer at all I must say but I do have a great faith in a higher power. That is the only reason I am alive and well today. I am totally convinced when the time was right he gave me the strength to keep taking those "baby steps" as I called them. Each step brought me closer to the life I have today.
May 02
Oh Colin, that is a loaded question for me, for sure! Over the years I have had so many doctors I will never be able to count them all. I have baffled the medical profession like you wouldn't believe. I was never supposed to come out of my condition. I was in a semi-catatonic state for over 8 years. I was "locked up" like an Alzheimers patient because I couldn't be trusted on the outside. Then one day my brain decided it wanted to try to reconnect. That was just the beginning of a long hard road. It got all mixed up sometimes and I did some very dumb things at times while I was trying to "come back" to the land of the living. I have seen medical doctors all over the USA from Chicago to South Dakota. Neurologists, Psychiatrists, you name it...I've stumped them all. It was GOD