Pardon Our Progress

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

Tag: family

  • Keeping Strong For Life

    When you feel like you no longer need it is when you are preparing to need it more than ever. Personal Experience I’ve seen the effects of weakness first hand both as a nurse and in my personal life. Situations like mine, after being in a coma for a month, are pretty much out of…

  • 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…

  • The Most Surprising Thing That Nearly Broke Me in the ICU

    Oddly enough, the extreme boredom drove me crazier than the immense and constant pain. It May Sound Nice… But… For me, the coma was the easy part. I simply went to sleep one day and, 24 days later, woke up. Granted I suffered nightmarish hallucinations that still plague my mind even 7 years later. You…

  • Twisting Testes To Stop A Seizure

    It was real. She did it. I remember it as clear as day. The Situation I was intubated. Naked except for a sheet draped across my midsection. There was a lot of machinery around me and a bright light above me, somewhat blinding. My wife was there. Always there, loyal and beautiful. And, much to…

  • My First Time Standing – And The Horrifying Discovery

    For the first time I realized just how absolutely dead and useless my legs truly were. Legs Like Wooden Blocks Not everyone will know this, but it is common practice to move a patient in the hospital every couple of hours. This: However, in my incredibly critical state, most of my nurses didn’t consider “moving…

  • 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…

  • My Story

    I’ve died three times, lost 65 pounds of muscle, and spent nearly two months learning how to live again. But before all that, I was just a guy trying to get fit, love my family, and live a good life. Here’s how it all came crashing down—and how I began to rise again.