I’d first met Cody back in 2017 when I’d taken a couple of his classes and he asked if I wanted to audition then, but at the time I was so focused on acting that I didn’t go ahead.
The latter confirmed my ‘headache’ had actually been a stroke and that I had a congenital heart defect called atrial septal defect (ASD).
Thankfully, everything went well – though my doctor did find a second hole in my heart, which was patched up at the same time – and I returned to America about a month after my surgery.
Eventually, I called my wife and she told me how to get on the train and get back home in one piece.
However, life was anything but normal afterwards as I still suffered with the repercussions of the stroke.
