Popular voiceover artist Cayman Kelly opened-up to candidly discuss a catastrophic health event he recently suffered.
This past Martin Luther King Jr. Day, on January 17, Kelly began experiencing a rapid loss of feeling and sensation in his right hand. Throughout the day, as symptoms progressed to include a slowing down of motor-response time and cognitive impairment, Kelly tried to ignore what was going on because he had a busy work schedule. It was not until Cayman Kelly‘s wife first noticed his symptoms that he was ru
“It was absolutely unreal, that whole day,” said Kelly. “Early on, I had stretched out on the floor for a few minutes, so when my hand started going numb, I just figured I had laid on it too long. The symptoms got much more intense – I was trying to type an email on my phone and noticed how difficult it was to try to complete the message. Then, I started dropping my phone on the floor repeatedly. When I went to wash my hands, I started to notice how I was cognitively slowing down because I wasn’t actually washing my hands, although I was standing there with the water running. But even though the feeling in my fingers never returned, I ignored it and went about my day.” Kelly recounted that he was able to walk normally that day – though in a haze – and even drove to pick his children up from a dental appointment. He was completely unaware that his time was running out. “Later on, I went to my studio and just kept thinking ‘I have work to do – this will ease up soon.’ I knew something was wrong, I had lost the motor skills of my right hand, but I was just going to ‘man up’ and hope that things would get better. Thankfully, my wife was off work that day. She called me on her way from an appointment and that’s when I confessed that I wasn’t having a good day.
