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Bride And Prejudice's Aalden: I thought I was going to die

The groom shares his near death experience. - by Nikki Black
  • 26 Nov 2018

Bride & Prejudice’s Aalden has revealed a terrifying health battle that left him fearing for his life. “I got extremely sick before I met Melissa. To the point where I thought I was going to die,” he tells New Idea.

“There was a period where I could barely walk. I had just been to Africa and I spent like $20,000 on medical expenses trying to figure that out over a year.”

Aalden’s Townsville doctors were unable to diagnose him.

“A lot of doctors just told me I had anxiety,” he recalls. “But I could barely walk so of course that was making me anxious!”

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Eventually, the now 32-year-old travelled to Sydney where he underwent MRIs and lumbar punctures. He was diagnosed with having idiopathic acute transverse myelitis – a type of inflammation of the spinal cord – which can, in some cases, be a precursor to multiple sclerosis.

“They basically labelled it as an attack on my spinal cord but they didn’t know why. The tests they did didn’t come back with any reason,” he adds.

Aalden was off work for 18 months and says for much of that time he hid himself away as he struggled with the pain and depression.

More than eight years on, Aalden says the experience was a positive one.

“I saw it as somewhat of a blessing because it sort of slapped me in the face. I used to stress about all these minute things,” he says. “One in three people never recover,” he adds.

“One in three people get worse and one in three do recover so I felt very thankful that I recovered.”

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