I’ve undergone several severe treatments throughout my life. Tragically, I succumbed to an aneurysm and a stroke on my fifth treatment. Ironically, I somehow sensed my impending demise.
As my family was informed of my passing, I remained in the surgery room, sitting upright and babbling like a wild gorilla. To preserve my brain function, they placed me in a medically induced coma and administered an ice bath for over a week. Upon awakening, I found myself speaking and realizing that I needed to relearn English. In the process, I inadvertently forgot three languages.
They informed me that I would be in the hospital for months, relearning motor skills, walking, and recovering from pneumonia. Remarkably, I managed to discharge within a little under a month.
A common question people ask is whether I experienced heaven or hell. The answer is no; there was simply a peaceful, empty void devoid of any connections. I vividly recall being torn from this state and sitting upright, babbling. However, that week-long coma was an absolute torment in my mind, as my heavily medicated subconscious interpreted it as 8 decades of brutal mental torture that I still vividly remember.
No way, not to drag up painful shiz, are you able to elaborate on the torture time warp? Feel free to not, obviously.
Suppose it started out Leave It To Beaver peaceful, but I could sense it was too perfect. It became creepy when each person or character I encountered responded violently in a single voice after I realized it wasn’t real. Then, it launched a rant about how if I wanted to resist the peaceful transition it was offering, I could have it the hard way. Then it spiraled out of control, with situations changing rapidly like a hall of horrors. Despite it ceasing to engage in verbal communication, I was always aware of each event, just cruel stuff. It felt like being in a classroom where you think time feels like it’s barely moving.
Had a colonoscopy in June, they pulled 17 polyps and said that, even though there was no cancer, finding more than 5 meant coming back in January.
January rolls around, 6 more polyps + stage 2 colon cancer. They removed my entire sigmoid colon in Feb.
Oof, that sounds brutal. Cancer fucking sucks. Sorry you’re dealing with that!
Still in recovery, but they got it all with surgery! No chemo or radiation needed!
Had a stem cell transplant to treat blood cancer. It wasn’t entirely successful but killed off so much that they told me to do it again six weeks later. Brutal going through mega-chemotherapy for so long, but five years later, I have “no evidence of disease”.
Oh sheesh, brutal sounds like it’s underselling it. I’m glad you got through it, and that the cancer didn’t!
I had an infected in-grown toenail when I was 13-15.
The treatment is too cut the nail lenghtwise to the root and get rid of that excess root.
First try the anaesthetics didn’t bite because of the infection. The doctor didn’t believe me until she was at the root. Two weeks of antibiotics and she tried again.
Second time anaesthetics worked. The doctor tried to get rid of the root with lye. The only thing I felt was my foot going cold as she rinsed away the lye. It grew back in-grown.
Next time was are a private practitioner. Similar procedure, anaesthetics, cut it lengthwise to the root. But instead of lye, he just scraped down the root with his scalpel. It’s been great for 30 years now.
I did Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation twice in an attempt to rid myself of depression or at least improve symptoms. Didn’t really take, but that’s not their fault. My version is just particularly stubborn.
Recently tried Ketamine treatment and that’s showing at least some signs of improvement.
I am also doing the ketamine thing. Which company are you using?
