Pardon Our Progress

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

Tag: healing

  • 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: A rusty wire cage strapped over my mouth A growth that leaked…

  • Why Hope Might Be More Powerful Than Medicine

    The Thing That’s Missing Doctors and nurses can bring you a lot of things. Medicine Food and water Hydration Visitors Etc But then there’s something that hospitals seem to always be in short supply of. Hope Believe it or not, sometimes hope is the key to recovery. This isn’t meant to belittle medicine or instructions…

  • What They Don’t Tell You About Recovery

    Nothing Was Easy They told me I’d be in a coma for three days. I woke up 24 days later. What followed wasn’t a “miraculous comeback.” It was hell—mentally, physically, spiritually. I had hallucinations that still haunt me. I couldn’t lift my arms. My own legs felt like wood blocks. The ventilator tore my throat…