Took My Breath Away
I wish that I could say that this post has nothing to do with the ever so present Coronavirus but unfortunately it does. More specifically, I want to write about my experiences on a ventilator. If we thought about each ventilator as a human life and not some low balled statistic we hear almost daily on the news then maybe more people would take this pandemic seriously. If there is one thing that I can attest to, it is that being on a vent is an absolute nightmare. I feel like when people hear about strangers getting the coronavirus and being placed on a ventilator or respirator to survive, they don’t really understand what that whole situation looks like. It’s a pretty morbid thought process but most people assume things like this are a survival of the fittest scenario. You hear all about the nursing homes being ravished, but I think people need to understand the true horror of what can happen with a respiratory complication. I was 23 years old. I could run half marathons and swim...