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Tag: Recovery
May 14, 2020
A Less Intensive Recovery Period
As I’m writing this post, the world is in the grips of the COVID-19 pandemic. At this time last year, I was still in the hospital, just barely off a ventilator myself. That makes this reflection a little more jarring. My last post as about this journey was the day my breathing tube was removed. That was not the end of my medical journey and recovery, not by a long shot. I was downgraded from the ICU to a “medicine” unit, but I was a long way from being “well”. Being semi-comatose and bedridden for over a month took a[…continue reading]
July 17, 2019
Two months since release
It was two months yesterday that I discharged from hospital. My how time flies. If someone asked me what’s new, I could cheekily answer: Became a father Spent 3.5 months in hospital because of a rare neuro auto-immune disease Ate an awesome steak last month Bought a new couch I wonder if anyone wants to hear about the couch…? At least I finally have an official diagnosis for what happened to me: Transverse Myelitis. It’s even more rare than Guillain-Barre syndrome. Lucky me. But, I’ve had some MRI’s recently, and it looks like it has gone away. Phew! Been a[…continue reading]
May 14, 2019
My Health Incident
I seemed to have everything going for me: Happily married, bought a house, great job, and super-cute newborn baby. Then something went inexplicably wrong. On February 2, 2019, I checked into the emergency room at the Trillium Health Centre Mississauga Hospital with weakness in my legs and urinary problems. This whole incident probably started weeks before with the string of flu’s that hit me in rapid succession. I was admitted to a hospital room and became increasingly confused. On the evening of February 5, I suffered a “Code Blue” (stopped breathing). The doctors and nurses performed CPR and managed to revive me.[…continue reading]
