February 13, 1993...
admitted into hospital diagnosed with rare pneumonia
( the same as Jim Henson died from)
3 hours in hospital both lungs collapsed...
put on life support and into an induced coma.....
3x's i was revived from passing away...
I woke up on May 4 1994....unable to move due to advanced total muscular atrophy....
Hearing lost from highly toxic antibiotics used in experimental stage...they had no idea what treatment to use as the pnuemonia was so rare no treatments had been successful at that time...
I acquired many other maladies as a result of having blood transfusions as well.....
unable to move or speak was the scariest part of the entire ordeal along with the fact of waking up almost 4 months later....
I am still unable to recall most of that experience.....
I was in rehab ...and in a wheelchair and was told I would not be able to walk again and would need to live on Oxygen for the rest of my life.....
It took 5 years to be able to regain most of my former self...physically. mentally as well as emotionally....and prove them all wrong!
to this day I have not regained 100% probably never will but....I am here and making the best of my second chance...I still have many illnesses that are being and have been diagnosed since that time and are direct results of that one illness....
sonmetimes you just gotta be thankful for being alive....no matter whether it is good or bad....
sometimes we get a second chance.....most who have posted in this thread have been given that.....
