Pardon Our Progress

You’re not too far gone. You’re just under construction.

Tag: death

  • The Hospital’s Nickname I Refused to Accept

    Clearly, she didn’t think it through… And that was the ONLY time anyone ever called me… The Problem With Life Support There’s no doubt that life support saves a lot of people who, without it, would die much earlier than necessary. But it does have it’s complications. Almost all of this happened to me… but…

  • My Struggle With Suicide – And Why I Chose Life

    I didn’t consider suicide because I hated myself so much… but because I loved my family more. Discovering Depression To be completely honest, prior to my stay in the hospital, I didn’t even believe in depression. I believed in sadness. I believed in anger and frustration. And depression was just a trendy little word to…

  • I Could Hear Everything… And My Mind Turned It Into Hell

    I could hear the voices. My wife, the nurses, the machines… And what my mind did with them was terrifying. I Was In A Horror Movie Everything going on was transformed into a nightmare. Just the ventilator going down my throat would become: When I could finally talk to my wife, I started to tell…

  • The Truth About Waking From A Coma (Its Nothing Like The Movies)

    Confusion. Terror. Panic. It would be hard to choose which one of these words sums it up best. How Its Portrayed I’ll never forget watching the show “House”. There was a character in a coma in this one room who had been out for a year or something silly like that. House would go into…