CU senior paralyzed after rare spinal stroke
FORT COLLINS, CO (KCNC) — A student at the University of Colorado Boulder is spending his senior year at home in Fort Collins, fighting to walk again. Four months ago, he suffered a rare spinal stroke and is now in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the chest down.
His prognosis is uncertain, but 22-year-old James Campbell is determined to fully recover.
“I never saw this in my future,” James told CBS4 Health Specialist Kathy Walsh.
James was healthy and athletic. He was an active outdoorsman, a fraternity brother, a CU business major. But on Sept. 20, 2020, alone in his Boulder apartment, he was helpless.