The time is 4:30 am on May 22, 2023. I woke up in bed. I wasn’t sure why I got up so early, but something was off. My body felt funny, strange, weird, but my mind was placidly calm. I tried to get up and head to the bathroom. I stumbled but set myself against […]

It turns out my second emergency room visit was the point of no return. I was now severely sick. I had a hard time eating with little appetite, I was achy, sore, dehydrated, nauseous, weak, cold, and just plain miserable. It was 75F degrees outside and I was on the couch in a sweatshirt, sweatpants, […]

After my collapse on May 9th, I spent the next week at home waiting for another medical emergency to happen. The emergency room doctor told me I would be a “hard case to diagnose”, because there wasn’t a known trigger for my collapse. Obviously, this made me paranoid because I didn’t know what was causing […]

I checked myself into the emergency room. I live in a small town, population of 8,700 people at the time of this event. We have mediocre medical care at best. There just isn’t a draw for high value medical professionals to move to the middle of nowhere and serve a small community of people. As […]

*This experience is a highlighted version. The full account will be released in book form. The last, “normal”, day I can remember was May 9th, 2023. I woke up, like any other day, fed my dog, drank my morning coffee and went about starting my day. I wasn’t feeling great, a little worn out from […]