I collapsed at the kitchen table, I had just been vomiting and I felt lightheaded and dizzy. and then everything went all funky. I lost all control of my limbs, my neck went droopy, and I could not lift my head up, my speech was very sluggish, and I had trouble keeping my eyes open.
My wife Candy quickly phoned the paramedics and when they arrived, they discovered that my heart rate had dropped so much it was below 20. they strapped me up to their carrier board and carried me downstairs to the ambulance. It was raining and all I could do was mutter the words of 'Don't forget my Candy'.
On the way to the hospital my heart rate was dropping even more, so much so that it needed defibrillating, All my organs including my kidneys were shutting down, everything was failing on me and Candy was told to expect the worse just in case, I was knocking on Mister Death’s door to see if he wanted a roommate, and I scared the shit out of my Candy because of it.
She would not leave my side in the Hospital which I was grateful for. She even volunteered her kidney as mine was shutting down. We both share the same blood type so it would be easy for her to donate blood and organs. It was touch and go for 24 hours and I was pumped with a lot of drugs to bring me round and fix me up again. I was hooked up to so many wires and machines including a Dialysis machine. It was very scary and for the first few days I had no memory of what happened to me, all I could remember was when the ambulance crew arrived and they had to strap me to a board to carry me downstairs, all I was doing was apologising for being heavy. It turns out I had a massive infection from my lymphedema on my legs plus the medications I was taking was not doing my body any good and I had to have it all flushed out of my system. I was in Hospital for just 9 days, and I made an amazing recovery which was noted by the Doctors and the Physiotherapist. I got better but I will always remember the date that I almost died.
And then the following year in 2013, I ended up back in hospital again when I had both my legs amputated above the knees due to the infection of the lymphedema in my skin and in my femurs which were rotting away from the inside. I was in hospital for 7 months that time.
And a year later in 2014, I ended up back into hospital yet again after suffering from several seizures and heart attacks. One seizure I experienced caused my vertebrae to break and I had to have a back brace to heal it up and have my back reset in place. I suffered from black outs as well and I lost my memory for a short time, and I could not remember anything about April or May of 2014. I was in hospital for a couple of weeks that time.
So, all in all, it has been an interesting experience, and don’t get me started on what happened to me from 2020 to recently!
Now that is another story!
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