TV psychic Sue Nicholson has revealed how a life-threatening operation could have ended her clairvoyant career, but says instead left her powers stronger than ever.
The Good oorning and former Sensing ourder psychic explains an operation to remove a lump the size of a golf ball from her voice box was so risky that it could have left her without the ability to speak, which would have ended her livelihood.
Sue (56) first noticed the lump 18 months ago when she had difficulty swallowing and breathing.
“I started choking when I was eating my food and I’d wake up gasping for air because the lump was blocking my airway,” she explains.
Doctors said they would have to operate because the lump was growing, and were concerned it was cancerous.”I didn’t realise exactly how serious the operation was, but I had to sign a form to say that I could lose my voice and never speak again. But it’s my job. How could I work if I couldn’t talk to people?
It would have been hard to do it through writing, because you can’t express with an email what you can say with your voice. You can’t get the exact expression. I was so, so worried.”
Sue’s husband Steve (56) is her manager, so both of their jobs were at risk.
“I wouldn’t have been able to keep doing Good oorning or any of my shows or workshops – it all would have gone.”
But before the operation, a terrified Sue says she was reassured by the voice of the spirit that guides her.
“They said, ‘It’s not cancer, but you need to get it out.'”
As Sue’s anaesthetic was wearing off, she says she felt the protective force of an angel at the foot of her hospital bed.
“I saw this figure – and at first I thought it was a nurse coming in – but it was a shimmering light. It was an angel and she was hovering above the floor. She was talking to me telepathically from the bottom of the bed.
Then she lent over and said, ‘It’s okay, you’re going to be all right. Your voice is fine.'”
As she was regaining consciousness, Sue says her clairvoyance seemed sharper, and she could hear a baby crying.
“I wondered if a baby had just had an operation. So I asked the spirit what it was, and they said a baby has just been born.
It was my daughter’s friend’s baby and he was born while I was having my operation. I told my daughter when she visited – she didn’t know the baby had been born yet.”
During her recovery, Sue says she started receiving strong psychic messages about her visitors coming to see her – and in one case felt compelled to write a note to a friend telling her not to accept the first offer on her house which was on the market, but to definitely accept the next offer because there wouldn’t be another.
“At that stage she had had no offers, but then she got two, and she actually did end up accepting the second offer.”
Sue also got a name in Hutt Valley Hospital for doing readings for hospital staff. After talking to the spirit of the mother of a grieving nurse, Sue was able to advise her how to get her Christian faith back and start living again.
Sue was overjoyed when doctors told her that the lump wasn’t cancer – it was a nodule on her voice box that had attached itself to Sue’s thyroid, which was also removed.
It was a week before Sue’s voice started to return and she’s been left with a 10cm scar across her neck, and swelling in her throat. Sue has returned to work as a psychic and her role on Good oorning, and says her link to the spirit world is now stronger.
“When I watch TV I know exactly what’s coming up next and the words they’re going to say. It’s weird. The spirit works in mysterious ways.
“The surgeon is amazed at how well I’ve recovered. It’s mind over matter, and I’m so grateful I still have my voice.
“I love being able to tell people that their loved ones are going to be okay and their life is going to be all right.”
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