Steve, I can’t give you much hope here. You were infected by a common organism found in hospitals through the IV line that is feeding you. The specialists tell me you don’t have the equipment to sustain life so you need the IV feeding, but this is keeping the infection alive and thriving…. The only way to kill it is to get you off IV’s, which you can’t!
I carefully answered: “I want to live, but I want a different life than I had before, you’ll have to do that” …then like a smile the light went back up in a flash leaving me again where I was with sunlight filtering down and blackness below me…I feel back into the coma where I remained for 15 days while I fought back to life.
As my eyes focused and I became aware, I saw my children and family standing in front of me with tears staining their faces….Dying on a respirator, gasping for air, on a piece of paper I wrote the word DIE? My mother said “YES we think tonight you will be meeting God”……..He looked directly into my eyes and said: “Steve, I give you a 3% chance that you’ll live more than 12 hours..
