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ABOUT JACOB

My name is Jacob Haendel. Not only am I a survivor of Stage 4 Toxic Acute Progressive Leukoencephalopathy (TAPL) and Locked-In Syndrome, I'm also the only documented recovery from TAPL. I'm here to share my story about overcoming addiction and surviving a terminal progressive disease.

 

My hope is to motivate others who may be facing any challenges in life and inspire people going through all types of recovery.

 

Follow along on my journey back to health!

Jacob Haendel

Jacob Haendel Recovery Channel

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Memorial Day weekend 2017, I was diagnosed with Acute Toxic Progressive Leukoencephalopathy.  There is no way to prove  what caused my illness.  The only thing they know for sure is that it was from inhaling a toxin.  This disease is nicknamed chasing the Dragon syndrome, I used to smoke heroin on tinfoil, odds are it was a cutting agent. This is my recovery journey from Locked-in syndrome (LIS), also known as pseudocoma. It is a condition in which a patient is aware but cannot move or communicate verbally due to complete paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body except for vertical eye movements and blinking. I will be making video posts as I was getting sicker leading up to me being locked in and then my miraculous recovery. Everyone thought I was “Brain dead” not in the clinical sense of the term could hear and see the entire time. People thought I would die hundreds of times, no one has ever recovered from stage four of toxic acute progressive Leukoencephaothy.

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