So I had a few very strange dreams, my wife going to America, buying a huge 4WD and a gun, Mexicans digging trenches, someone shaving me, conversations with people kind of, being on a pushbike, under some floor tiles looking at statues of WW1 soldiers on the Mall carrying pikes, someone talking about the Police pulling her over in her yellow GTi, being on a motorbike etc. a nurses voice talking to me, she had lovely eyes but I couldn't speak.
I had a period where I was aware of stuff going off and wanted to talk but couldn't, there was a pipe in my mouth, a feeding tube apparently, a nurse every so often would ask me to cough and there were suction noises, I recall seeing a nurse walk towards me fully gowned up and me croaking "tea, tea" at her, her eyes lighting up when she heard me and her rushing out then a load of people who I presume were doctors coming in and asking me things and checking stuff, then I was given a sponge dipped in water... All very strange, after that I had a blood transfusion, Then I had a memory of some guy asking me if I wanted to walk again or was I going to stay bedridden, I had no idea what he was talking about until I looked at my arm and realised I had bingo wings and almost no muscle, they got me oyt of bed, strapped me to some device and tried to get me to walk, I had a shock when I saw my legs, just loose flaps of skin where my muscles used to be.
Apparently I had been in a coma for 24 days. I have no idea, I was asleep. I also now know your body consumes muscle mass at quite a rate when you are comatose, I lost almost 14 kg of mass apparently.
Then my Surgeon and the anaethetist came to see me, the first thing my surgeon said was "Hello Mr Grieve we are about to have a conversation I never expected we would have but I'm very glad we are having it". To which my stunned reply? I have no idea because I was digesting that statement. Probably congratulating him on his skill keeping me alive, but he told me bluntly he didn't think I was going to make it "You must have something special in your makeup, only 1 in 5 survive what you went through". Wow. Just wow..
So bearing in mind I wasn't aware I'd been in a coma, just aware of a lot of strange dreams that was a bit of a shock and another part of the loss of muscle mass is that your rain suffers a bit too, your voice, your lungs, even your heart loses mass so you kind of have to start rebuilding mass again from the point you wake up...
I had a period where I was aware of stuff going off and wanted to talk but couldn't, there was a pipe in my mouth, a feeding tube apparently, a nurse every so often would ask me to cough and there were suction noises, I recall seeing a nurse walk towards me fully gowned up and me croaking "tea, tea" at her, her eyes lighting up when she heard me and her rushing out then a load of people who I presume were doctors coming in and asking me things and checking stuff, then I was given a sponge dipped in water... All very strange, after that I had a blood transfusion, Then I had a memory of some guy asking me if I wanted to walk again or was I going to stay bedridden, I had no idea what he was talking about until I looked at my arm and realised I had bingo wings and almost no muscle, they got me oyt of bed, strapped me to some device and tried to get me to walk, I had a shock when I saw my legs, just loose flaps of skin where my muscles used to be.
Apparently I had been in a coma for 24 days. I have no idea, I was asleep. I also now know your body consumes muscle mass at quite a rate when you are comatose, I lost almost 14 kg of mass apparently.
Then my Surgeon and the anaethetist came to see me, the first thing my surgeon said was "Hello Mr Grieve we are about to have a conversation I never expected we would have but I'm very glad we are having it". To which my stunned reply? I have no idea because I was digesting that statement. Probably congratulating him on his skill keeping me alive, but he told me bluntly he didn't think I was going to make it "You must have something special in your makeup, only 1 in 5 survive what you went through". Wow. Just wow..
So bearing in mind I wasn't aware I'd been in a coma, just aware of a lot of strange dreams that was a bit of a shock and another part of the loss of muscle mass is that your rain suffers a bit too, your voice, your lungs, even your heart loses mass so you kind of have to start rebuilding mass again from the point you wake up...
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