You haven’t lived
until you’ve fallen into
coma.

Between eternity and earth.

It happened to me
about five weeks ago.

It was otherwise an ordinary day.
I went to work, came home,
had dinner with my beloved.

Then a few hours later
I began to feel uncomfortably
strange — sick, pins and needles
ascended my entire body.

I told my wife I must lay down.
Not feeling well.

Things got worse
I couldn’t get comfortable,
my thinking became confused.

I told her I’d be okay with rest,
I just needed to sleep.

She too went to lay down.

My last coherent thought, my
wife said later, was about Joe, my client.
Evidently I knew I’d never make it
to work the next day.

Then I collapsed into mumbling and delusional thinking she said, similar to the state I was in brought on by a bout of Sepsis which I had nearly died from several years ago.

When the ambulance and paramedics came
they reasonably suspected stroke. I am 70, after all. They see it a lot.

I did not see or hear them. By then I was unconscious.

The next thing I remember is waking up
in the Intensive Care Unit.

“You are a lucky man,” the doctor said. “When you came in you didn’t even have a gag reflex. No reflexes at all. Almost a full day.

Your whole system shut down trying
to preserve your heart and brain. Coma.”

“How can anyone not believe in God, I asked?”

He nodded his head in agreement. There are still many quiet believers in this world.

I was released a couple of days later after it was clear I had recovered as mysteriously as it all began. No cognitive deficits, no physical impairments.

There remain many questions.

MRI and CAT Scans while I was in the coma revealed nothing initially that would explain it. More tests are to come. Metabolic Encephalopathy is being considered.

An angel of a nurse, another believer, who gave me an EEG light show today, said I have “high amplitudes” for a man my age.

Whatever that means.

She told me to “trust Him” and “accept it as a new passage on your Journey”.

I will I said.

Lazarus. Blessed miracle he.
But he was only raised once.

Whatever happens, we have an Appointment to keep when The Lord wills.

Blessed Appointment.

SH

+