Guy almost dies on a plane - VRChat Stories

i remember very keenly talking to my parents you know right before going into surgery i remember looking over to them i remember telling them um i remember telling them that it's good i remember telling them that no matter what happens that i will always love them so it's 2015 it's finals week in college and i you know my parents tell me that my great-grandmother had passed away and uh we had to go from here in north carolina to nebraska and on the way there we have a layover flight in between atlanta the only thing that i really remember is eating like a poppa seed muffin from the airport because it was really delicious but i'm told that like when we landed in atlanta i had stood up to grab my laptop from the overhead compartment and when i grabbed it i had collapsed onto the ground um and my dad had uh thought that my knees had buckled and so he you know pushes me or you know yeah i'm not pushing me but like you know well not just me and says all right you know nathan come on you know get up time to get up but i'm not moving um i'm unresponsive at the time and it was at that point that he started to realize that something was wrong that i wasn't conscious at the time very fortunately there were three people there that were cpr certified and one of them was a nurse and they um resuscitated me and you know they provide you know the the nurse checked my pulse found out that it had an elevated pulse and grab what was called an aid and i don't even know if they have one on this plane but what an aed is it's a little it's a little box um that has leads that come out of it that you can place on your on on a chest and it will sense the uh the heart rate um of a person and determine whether or not to deliver a shock and what they had found after they had placed it on me is that i was having a cardiac arrest um it's not the same as a heart attack but you know cardiac arrest can lead to a heart attack what was essentially happening is that my heart was pumping uh so fast that there wasn't any oxygen going to my uh my head and i passed out as a result and if i had you know prolonged if left for long it would eventually lead to a heart attack or it could eventually lead to a heart attack but it will eventually lead to death um so they uh placed it on me and it had decided to uh shock me it was at this point that my sister uh was on the phone with my mother um and she was uh apparently absolutely frantic and um she's hyperventilating you know talk to my mother and she says you know we you know we think that nathan we think that he and my dad apparently interrupted and said you know we don't know anything hang up the phone we'll call her later personally what was going through my mind uh was you know do i have some sort of undiagnosed heart defect you know am i going to be alive in a few months um you know is this is is this something that's going to uh ruin my life uh or or severely impact my life um if i don't die um because you know that was like probably the scariest moment of the whole thing was just not knowing what was going on i remember very keenly talking to my parents you know right before going into surgery i remember looking over to them i remember telling them um i remember telling them that good i remember telling them that no matter what happens that i will always love them and it's uh and my mother kind of chuckled and she's like you know well why are you saying this in i told her i don't know truth be told at the time i i didn't know it took me years to realize why i had said that and what had happened was is that i had realized that i didn't get it i didn't get the chance to say goodbye to my family and i didn't want to miss that chance again so my mom at this point was obviously very confused as to what was going on she's over in nebraska helping out with the the funeral preparations and everything and you know they're still trying to stabilize me while they wait for an ambulance to arrive and a second shot gets delivered to my heart you know again trying to restart it to get it out of a systole the ambulance finally arrives and i'm taking to a hospital my father rides with me in the ambulance my brother sister and now sister-in-law ride a taxi to a nearby uh i think it was a motel you know they they fight managed to stabilize me in the icu but i was placed under a medically induced coma for three days it's weird like if you've ever been into surgery you'll know that like when you get out of like um when you get out of anesthesia it's like waking up very groggy in the morning um you know you're you're very quick to jump back on but when you're in a medically induced coma you don't you don't you know for me i didn't have anything it was um it was it was very slow start to waking up now according to my mother you know they were absolutely terrified at the time because they you know when they finally woke me up three days later they didn't know what they would find they didn't know if i had oxygen deprivation to the brain and i was going to be brain damaged or if i was um if there was like something wrong with me you know mental as a result from complications of the cardiac arrest they didn't know what was going to happen but according to my mother and i loved this part of the story the first words out of my mouth were [ __ ] and that's when they realized that i was going to be all right and slowly you know throughout the day i started to get become more and more rare aware i had um apparently i was constantly asking them what happened you know what what's uh what what's going on you know why am i here what you know and then i asked that several times um and i don't really remember any of that the first time i i remembered what they told me had happened uh the first thought that came to my mind was oh thank god my computer's all right because i was on my laptop at the time but yeah so we waited there for a few days and afterwards and we're trying to they're trying to figure out what exactly was wrong with me they had done ct scans and mris and you know stuff like that blood work all that and they walked back in and they said we don't know what's wrong with you so we're just going to discharge you um and about five minutes later my cardiologist uh stormed into my room and had told them we are not releasing this guy uh this yeah a healthy 20 year old kid does not have a cardiac arrest for no reason we are ill-equipped to deal with this we're going to send him to another hospital and i was optimistic that i'd be able to just go into a car and then like go to a hospital but they put me into like an ambulance again and sent me off to actually the same hospital that i think was jimmy carter got his um heart surgery done at so they were really um really prepared they come in they say we still don't know what's wrong with you and we think that the best course of option is to have an sicd in place implanted into you an sicd stands for subcutaneous implantable cardiac defibrillator and what it is is it's a defibrillator that's implanted into my chest and they uh you know they they wheeled me in they put the anesthesia on you know over there they they injected me with anesthesia and i went under um and they implanted the defibrillator on me which is the first time i had ever gotten into surgery so it was an interesting experience i remember getting out of it and just being in the whole world of pain because they had ripped open like my my chest muscles and shoved a box into it and fed a wire underneath uh my pectoral muscle and up my sternum um so it was it was not very comfortable during this entire time any time i would like sit up or like get out of bed and move it would raise alarms and the nurses would come rushing into the room to make sure i'm all right because my heart rate would spike up a bit it was still recovering at this time because it had just suffered a traumatic event one of the things that really kept me going through the entire thing was just humor i remember um talking to my friends at the time they bust my balls about uh about always saying that uh uh saying that i was getting like a pikachu upgrade because it got like a defibrillator implanted in me and that's something that like people like asked to is like what's what's it like and shocked by a defibrillator um what's it like uh against shocked by it and it's not very comfortable um i remember absolutely hating atlanta rhodes because they had uh put the thing in stitched me up and then said all right yo you can leave the hospital in like a few hours [Music] so that was very exciting leaving um but i remember hating atlanta roads because every single goddamn bump on those roads i felt uh with immense pain on the way back home on the four-hour drive it was it sucked um but um you know got home safe and sound i was very happy to be home the first night that i spent at home too i you know i slept downstairs because you know i didn't want to like go up the stairs because you know moving hurt um at the time and so i want to minimize that and i also couldn't like lay down on my back because if i you know sitting back up um that's uh caused a lot of stress in my in my chest which um in turn also hurt because of the surgery so i slept downstairs on the chair and the first night i actually had like god i think it was like my first nightmare that it had in like 10 years at that time i remember like screaming waking up screaming yelling my young dad uh unfortunately my dad like was like sleeping downstairs with me um he's like you know is everything all right man um and yeah unfortunately it was but um i forgot to mention this like the worst thing about being in a hospital for like a prolonged period of time um is that i wasn't able to like get into the shower because i had a whole bunch of like [ __ ] hooked up to me and like all that and the best that i got was like a a a dry bath where like they had wipes and soap and stuff like that that you know i had to do that and that sucked um but for like 10 days i was laying in the same clothes my own basically my own filth and it was [ __ ] horrible um i remember like when i got home one of the very first things i did was go into the shower and i couldn't get it above the chest because if if the water had hit the wound it could get you know it could get infected it can mess up the stitching you can do like a whole bunch of stuff so it's no water above the chest but like chest down oh my it was the best goddamn feeling that i had ever felt it was amazing i was so happy like i was like the the the happiest that i had been at that entire time was just getting into the shower yeah remember the day after that two my brother had got home and uh he's very happy to see me and he um he immediately walks up to to give me a hug and he's you know he's pretty gentle with the hug i'm sure he wanted to hug harder but it still hurt a little bit i remember like when you know when he hugged me and yelled with you know i kind of like tensed up because you know it you know it was still sore um and my brother was very upset about this he actually ended up walking into the garage and punching the freezer and i think it was because when we were growing up he had spent so much time sort of with the protective brother mindset and in that instance he couldn't protect me he couldn't help me uh he couldn't do anything for me he could just like support me um and when he tried to like support me and hug me he ended up hurting me and he got very upset about that i remember feeling very very upset because you know i had known that everyone was thinking about me at the time and i don't i don't i didn't like that um i wanted that this to be a time where people focused on my my grandmother who had just passed away in her life and uh you know i and i i felt guilty at the time i didn't quite understand like why i just knew that i felt guilty that people were talking about me or thinking about me and checking up on me instead of focusing on her and that that really um that really upset me the main thing that i took away from this entire experience is that so many people tell you to cherish what you have um and we all kind of get that you know don't take for granted everything can be taken from you the next day but what what no one ever told me or explained to me was that you should always let those that you love know how much you love them because you you don't know when the last time they'll see you is that's something that i try and operate off of now i always try to be as kind as i can i've you know when it when i was younger i you know struggled a lot with [Music] anger management and mental health issues and stuff like that and a lot of what i've uh would have gone through i had gone through with that um put things into perspective for me and that i can't really take um what i have for granted i need to show nothing but love to those that i love um and i try and do that every day i've since moved out my parents house um but every week i still um drive on to their down to their house and eat dinner with them because because i love them and i want to spend as much time as i can with them because i still don't know um i still don't know when the last time i've seen them is because we never really did get an answer as to what caused the cardiac arrest if you want to help support the channel then please consider subscribing it only takes one second and it really does help a lot and if you enjoyed this video then maybe leave a like and a comment if you'd like to be a part of my community you should join the discord and follow me on twitter links are down in the description below [Music] you

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Length: 17min 40sec (1060 seconds)

Published: Sat Jan 30 2021