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music venue, a familiar face planned to be sitting on his usual stool at his habitual spot at the end of the bar.
Campbell has introduced Cuddy there many times. Whether he would do so on Thursday night was “a game-day decision.” When Campbell came to, wedged between the wall and the bottom stair in the basement, “a 16th of an inch from being dead,” his first thought was that he had “Christopher Reeves-ed myself.”The bad news: he couldn’t move a finger, just like the late actor who was left paralyzed from the neck down.
For 72 hours there, on a hospital bed Campbell lay, unable to eat or drink, use a cellphone because his hands did not work, or even sleep.“After I had been in the ER there for about 12 hours I awoke and realized that I could wiggle my toes, which everyone was pretty excited about.” Mike Campbell at the Nova Scotia Rehabilitation and Arthritis Centre in Halifax on March 13. - Tim KrochakBut the three-and-a-half-hour operation confirmed that his spinal column was undamaged. The neurosurgeon inserted horizontal posts between some of Campbell’s vertebrae, before fusing them together.
His hands, he said” are “f---ed,” too weak to open a bottle of Gatorade, too clumsy for him to efficiently shave by himself.
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