Nash was placed on life support, in an induced coma, where he stayed for two-and-a-half weeks.īy the time Nash woke up, gangrene had spread across much of his limbs and his family had been told that he would probably die. Doctors had to perform a fasciotomy, a surgical procedure where tissue is cut open to give the tissue room to expand, on his arms and legs. His stepsister called an ambulance and one of his last memories is a doctor telling him he had the C strain of meningococcal, which induced septicaemia and had advanced to a lethal stage. It hit like a flu that came on fast: that morning he was at university as usual, by the afternoon he was passed out on his bathroom floor. Nash first got sick 10 days after his 19th birthday, in July 2001. He can laugh now, but the journey wasn’t easy. Sign up for our rundown of must-reads, pop culture and tips for the weekend, every Saturday morning He’s still quick to the punchline – describing, for instance, quadruple amputation as “just like getting a bad haircut, only it doesn’t grow back”. During our conversation today, in the very different setting of broad daylight on a Friday afternoon, he quotes Nietzsche and references psychological theories between puffs of a black vape (he has ditched the cigs). When I first met Nash a decade ago during my own past life in clubland, he was the guy whose Facebook profile photo was a shot of him with five lit cigarettes in his mouth at once a charismatic figure who would walk through the club like he owned it and hold court at the kick-on. But like its author, the book is frequently funny prone to dark humour and wry observations on human nature. Given its subject matter, you might expect Hook, Line and Sinner to be a difficult read. “And sometimes that requires a bit more explanation than just face value.” “I genuinely regard having a disability as an advantage in many ways,” he says. Nash also hopes the book reframes expectations of what is possible for someone like him. Because while you might often read about the physically disabled running a marathon or shooting hoops, “You never hear about them ending up in nightclubs on LSD, DJing to 500 people.” He wanted to offer an antidote to what he views as “inspiration porn” – “I’m the anti that, whatever that is” – and tell an unexpected story. It documents his incredible life so far, from getting sick to dominating Sydney’s nightclubs, launching a new career as public speaker (you may have seen his viral Ted Tal k titled The Perks of Being a Pirate) and “the bold decision not to become a Paralympian”.
Now, Nash is telling the definitive story of what happened to him in a new memoir, Hook, Line and Sinner. ‘I genuinely regard having a disability as an advantage in many ways’ … Nash.
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