That's a great review, Lindab, especially the mention of Gord being in a coma. It was actually a medically induced coma, just like the doctors did to me for the month of August. I spent September just sleeping the drugs off, and don't really remember much of that, either.
I'll tell you, if death is like being in a coma, we have nothing to worry about. It was just a lack of feeling and awareness, like I was in a very deep sleep. I do remember waking up once and I had a big mit on my left hand, like a boxing glove made of cloth, because I guess I'd been bad and tried to pull tubes out of my head and stomach. But the only part of the event I remember is hearing the nurse, Abebu (from a Caribbean Island, I think) tell me, "Your bad! Look at the blood I have to clean up! Bad, bad!" She put the mit on my hand so I couldn't get a hold of the tubes. Then she strapped my hands down to the bed! Really, it's probably a good thing that I don't remember most of it!
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