He withdrew from school and learned how to walk again. Clearly, I was still passionate about food.”īetween 20, Haraldsen was in hospital over 70 times. “When I woke up, the first thing I asked for–still high from the drugs–was a kebab. “There was a big risk I’d end up paralyzed from the operation, but the surgeons managed to get things right,” he says. All nerve threads and blood vessels were repositioned, and he had to be brought back to consciousness during the procedure to check if he still had a connection with his legs.
Most of Haraldsen’s vertebrae–around a dozen–were removed and replaced with metal brackets. Experts were brought in from other hospitals and countries. The first of the two major surgeries that followed was, at the time, the biggest in Norwegian medical history, lasting 14 hours.
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