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Tag: Health
June 14, 2020
Friendly Fire: How does an Auto-Immune Illness Happen?
I’ve written a lot now about my health journey this year, where a rare auto-immune disease almost killed me, crippled me, put my family through hell, and how I’ve spent over a year trying to get my life back together. This has been a frightening but motivating journey for me. Many questions have hounded me over these long, trying months: What happened? How did it happen? Why did it happen to me? How do I prevent it from happening again? How can I help my friends and family avoid similarly debilitating illnesses? I refuse to believe some diagnoses that I was just[…continue reading]
January 30, 2020
Surviving the ICU
I shared a post about how I almost died and I was very touched about the positive and supportive comments from everyone. Maybe I’m being reflective because it’s been almost a year since then, but it seems to help me to review what happened to me. The “code blue” was only the start of a very harrowing journey. That journey isn’t even over yet, but I’m glad I survived several Intensive Care Units (ICU) and can share my experience. I’ll warn readers again that this could be a disturbing and frightening entry. I had genuine nightmares, anxiety, and panic attacks re-living[…continue reading]
December 5, 2019
The Evening I Died…. Briefly
This isn’t a story for the faint of heart; this is the story of a near-death event. Consider yourself warned. I have hesitated to post this, but considering how much of my life now pivots on this, I thought it was important to share this moment. This is the story of the night I died. Well, I was dead for a short time. Rumours of my demise were only slightly exaggerated. It’s hard to believe this was 10 months ago today. It seems like a lifetime ago, and I’ve been through so much since. But in some ways, it also feels[…continue reading]
