38 years ago for me.
They thought I would be a vegetable...if I ever came out of the coma.
Fooled them.
/but it’s been no easy ride
Wow!!
I never went to into a coma but when I was in ICU my mother went to buy a kitten and my aunt was calling funeral homes. My mother heard that kittens were good for sick people :-)
And my aunt thought it was over.
I know how much you have suffered and it sounds like you were in worse shape so I can only imagine.
Headaches that don’t seem possible that the body could generate that much pain. Insomnia for 72 hours. Night terrors. I woke up every 10 minutes for over a year.
Pulsatile tinnitus. I get to hear my heartbeat for the rest of my life :-)
Absent so much more. I typed 100 words a minute before and I typed 12 after. I am back up to a hundred.
I sincerely wish you had not had to go through that but to find somebody that understands is unusual.