Pardon Our Progress

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

Tag: life

  • 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…

  • Review: “Can’t Hurt Me” By: David Goggins

    Why Choose This Book Can’t hurt me first came to my attention when a friend of mine, a runner, posted online that he was reading it for the 3rd time. He let me borrow it and I was so impressed that I read it again with my wife. It is, without a doubt, a great…

  • Review: The Book on Mental Toughness By: Andy Frisella

    Why I Chose This Book Honestly? My recovery didn’t completely go the way I wanted. Depression had gotten a hold of me and, while I recovered a lot of physical strength and toughness, my mind was suffering. I first stumbled across the program while looking for a workout and diet. I had reached 317 lbs…

  • 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.

  • 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…