
Waking Up Was the Worst Part
“Waking up was sudden. So, so sudden. I was in blackness. Had a moment of awareness, like ‘my neck hurts’ and then the pain was magnitudes higher. No longer a distant perception but something that I was actively conscious of. Waking up was the most painful moment of my life and I just started crying and then couldn’t even cry it hurt so bad. I think that had more to do with injuries sustained to my neck and head than the coma, but that is what it was like. After an hour my body was used to the pain and I was totally normal, albeit very weak, hungry, and thirsty.“