Pardon Our Progress

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Tag: life-support

  • The Deafening Silence

    There wasn’t a single sound that could be considered loud, offensive, or out of place… and it was literally driving me crazy. What You Can Get Used To I wouldn’t ever go so far as to say a hospital room is peaceful. Especially not in a CICU. When you’re laying in that bed you hear…

  • 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…

  • Suicide & A Vision (Part 2)

    The decision to live or die seems like an easy one to most. But on that day… If you haven’t read part one about my struggle with suicide, you can read it by clicking here. The Ongoing Struggle While the decision had been made for that fateful night, the idea of taking my own life…

  • The Time I Tried To Put A Hit On My Nurse

    Nurses have to put up with a lot of “crazy” with patients who are out of their mind. But I often wonder if I’m the only one who tried to put out a hit on one. Ok… Let Me Explain Myself When you’ve been in a coma for a month, things are already bad enough.…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • Why Hope Might Be More Powerful Than Medicine

    The Thing That’s Missing Doctors and nurses can bring you a lot of things. But then there’s something that hospitals seem to always be in short supply of. Believe it or not, sometimes hope is the key to recovery. This isn’t meant to belittle medicine or instructions but, without hope, I’ve seen patients cave in…

  • 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.