Nabil Daoud
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This is my story:

I was born in the year 1955 in south-Lebanon, I went too early to the capitale Beirut with my parents for study where I finished successfully complementary, secondary and finally universally study in french faculty of medecine, by the end I was graduate in 1980 doctor in medecine. Then I begin my specialisation in urology, by the end of 1984 I was graduate genito-urinary surgeon, but my destiny refuse to me the right to practice surgery and like someone who waits for me to finish my study, then he orders me to stay lay-down in the bed like “cadavre vivant” an expression described by Alexandre Dumas to one of his hero, who had the same symptoms than me, but the syndrom was unknwon in 1840,  in his work “le comte de Montecristo”.
In midnight of 25 January in the year 1985, suddenly and without any premonitory sign, I felt a strong headache and within two hours I lost my sight, my equilibrium, and in few minutes I become comatose for one month, when I awoke I found myself quadriplegic and mute with the lesion of some cranial nerves which I discover gradually because no one had the courage to tell me what happens to me even the physician who treated me and who is supposed to do it, but the sensibility was present and normal in all the body, a stomach tube and a tracheostomy, a state medically known by the name locked-in syndrom which the mortality is very high.
The impact of this state was markedly dramatic, I tooke many years to accept the new situation after a great conflict. The first five years were full of sufferings day and night without ceasing which lets me less than three hours for sleep from 5h-8h Am each day like someone said “it’s enough, let’s start again”, these years marked my life in fashion I forgot my state, the question becames “how to escape these sufferings ?
Within months, somes muscles recover but involontary others partly and the left thumb was totally controlled after six months from the stroke.
My friends became very rare and finally they disappear one after another, actually there still a priest who visit me with some seminaries.
The position of my wife was a part of the cerebral stroke, not only she lefts me and demands the divorce which she have it given by a metropolitan who consider himself the greatest one in the world, but also she confiscates all the money I have without any reason, like if she saids “you are not worthy of life” and she had left me naked without any assistance from the Lebanese state or any form of social security, the only institution which takes care of me is my brother and my sister. my mother does her best despite many diseases and my father serves me before his death day and night without ceasing for nine years. Until now my home is not equiped for handicap nor the bath and I live in the third floor without an electric lift.
From the year 1990 the question was “how to write ? “I must found a device which lets me access the computer and the price within my capacity, because they were many but too expensive and because my cognitive skills were intact, I decide to translate theologic books from French language to Arabic after studying myself the theology for five years. I had translated three books letter by letter using the code which I discover myself and  known very well over all the world.
In 1996 the question rose again, I had brought a book on communication for speechless with disability from the united states and I found a device which I can pay the price.

The invention that transformed my whole life !
In summer of the year 1996 I bought from the US a device called Ke:nx invented in 1995 by DonJohnston incorporation, which allow me to have access to the computer and open any programme, writing, faxing, access to the internet, e-mail....
All of this by using one finger: the left thumb.
this opens to me two challenges:
1- I hav’nt any idea on computer, composition and hwo it    works.
2- no one knwos Ke:nx, it’s the first in Lebanon and probablly in  the middle east.
which mean “I must learn myself”, for that I had reviewed the books many times.
In the beginning I wrote one letter by minute, but actually I am able to write more than 25 letters by minute. I have wrote til now more than 100000 (hundred of thousand) words, and I had translated the fourth theologic book myself using this system without any assistance from old english to arabic language, from a book dating “end of nineteenth century”. Actually this system is called Discover Ke:nx.   
When I am installed before the computer, it’s the only time I felt my complete independance and my absolute freedom in manner I do what I want without any assistance from no-one on earth. It’s a feeling very sweet and joyful in brief undescrible.

Actually I plan to:
1. write a book on my own story
2. found an institution which take care of physicaly disabled   people.

Dr Nabil Daoud

here there is a medical report of the physician who treated me:

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