I have been in a coma for years, i could hear everything

[Applause] hi there I'm aria imagine yourself not being able to say I'm hungry I'm hurting thank you I love you imagine yourself being imprisoned inside a body a body which doesn't obey your orders at all people are all around you yet you feel alone it wouldn't be easy would it well I lived for years feeling this way years of wishing for the ability to connect to express to share with others maybe you're wondering about the reason well it was that I fell off the tree I was my mom and dad's only child we were a middle-class family and we lived in a small house with a stunning backyard which had an old oak tree that was said to be even older than my grandparents when my dad first bought the house he found a tree house in the oak tree built by the kids who had lived in the house before us after a lot of convincing my father agreed to fix the tree house he even made a wooden ladder so I could climb into the tree easily I remember helping my dad decorate its walls with posters and photos of my favorite band for a second you might be thinking what a sweet family but no this wasn't the case exactly you see my mom was a moody woman who yells a lot and nothing me or my dad did could please her she would spend the whole night smoking cigarettes in front of the TV and then sleep the whole day as for my dad he spent his time working so he could pay the bills and buy us food and me well after I got home from school there was nothing for me to do but go and play with my dolls in the tree house for my 13th birthday my dad bought me the best gift ever he bought me a little white puppy that was super fluffy I called him snowball perhaps this dog would keep me company so I wouldn't be so alone I loved snowball and I taught him lots of tricks we used to spend all day together in the tree house we won't only go home to eat dinner that way we steered clear of my mom's yelling and her long fights with my dad I watched this guy a lot during my days in the tree house back then my dad only came home after the Sun had set so I'd watch the stars lighting up the sky they looked amazing I knew that those stars were nothing but meteors traveling faster as they burned but everything my dad told me about them made them seem magical one time I was watching the sky with snowball waiting for my dad to return home when he arrived he climbed up and sat beside me he said this falling star is a wish that just came true for someone out there in the world a wish I said he explained a long long time ago there was a poor man praying to the gods every day however the gods were always busy so they didn't answer him one day he screamed so loudly the mountains shook the gods looked at him and listened to his troubles it became so sad and cried burning stars so this way whenever he saw a falling star in the sky he'd make a wish and the gods would make them come true but can this be possible I asked and he replied legends are a beautiful thing to hear but not to believe if the legends are so old how can we know if they are true or not I asked he just smiled at me and said it was time to head back into the house on that same night while I was lying in bed hugging snowball it started to feel like my life was falling apart my mom was screaming hysterically at my dad telling him that the money he was bringing in was no longer enough and that he should start searching for an extra job she said that she could no longer go out with her friends because she was so embarrassed she couldn't afford to buy new dresses every time they went out like her friends did I saw snowball looking at me as if he wanted to say what a silly woman the fighting and loud screaming continued for a long time until I could no longer bear it I snuck out of the window and headed towards the dark oak tree in the back yard everything around me was dark behind me walked snowball we crept very quietly so no one would hear us and then we arrived at the tree house it was pitch black so I missed a step on the ladder and then my leg slipped the last thing I remembered from that day was that after I fell hard on the ground everything around me turned fuzzy snowball sounded far away even though I could see him jumping around me then I wasn't able to feel anything after a little while I felt myself waking up my head hurt and I couldn't feel any part of my body I'd completely lost control over my body parts even my eyes I couldn't open them I could feel the light around me but it was too difficult to open my eyes oh my what happened to me was I stuck in my sleep or was it worse than that had I died I didn't know much about death except that after death a person drowns in darkness but this darkness I felt was different completely different I could feel my body freezing suddenly I heard someone if I was able to hear him that means I wasn't dead thank God from his tone of voice I gathered he was a doctor speaking to my parents he said the damage she suffered to her head due to the fall has resulted in severe internal bleeding in her brain which is preventing enough oxygen from reaching her body resulting in a coma but I wasn't in a coma I was there with them I heard my dad crying and my mom inquiring about the treatment fees I wanted to scream to call out for them to say something anything but I wasn't able to even talk at that time suddenly I was just a vegetable unable to do anything but listen most people don't think twice before talking or connecting with others they do it automatically but I had absolutely no way of speaking to anyone for the last 13 years I had been a normal girl a girl who loved her dad her dog and who loved to play I was happy and healthy but now suddenly that had all changed the doctors didn't know what to do they thought I was completely in a coma but they always treated me nicely all the time I spent in the hospital I only heard my dad's voice my mom had completely vanished I didn't know where she was and I didn't hear anything related to her until the day the doctor said there is nothing more they can do and that it is best for me to return to my parents home I heard my mom arguing with my dad she didn't want me back home I was according to her a burden that she didn't want to carry but I went home anyway I was happy because I was returning home I heard my dad telling my mom that he finished the tree house because that was the last thing I asked him to do that's why he insisted on bringing me back home so I could be near the things I loved however things went downhill from I lost my ability to move I felt all the mind exams that conducted on me in the hospital so the doctors told my parents they could treat me as if I didn't exist my return home was just a hopeless attempt at keeping my unconscious body comfortable until well until I died my dad tried his hardest to keep me comfortable and that really annoyed my mom their friends stopped visiting after a while and the money dad was providing was no longer enough machines that were keeping me alive were too expensive before I was able to escape my mom's screaming and ranting but today I was stuck with it without them even knowing that I could hear them the whole thing felt like a nightmare when my dad first got me snowball I thought that he was very smart and could just understand me without even having to talk to him but my dad used to laugh and say dogs are about as smart as a three-year-old it can feel when you're happy sad or scared but they can't read your mind deep down though I knew snowball was no ordinary dog he was special enough to be able to read my thoughts because we had this insane bond every time my parents started their screaming matches I hear snow boss sitting beside me and barking out a low voice as if to tell me that everything would be all right I was sure that snowball knew I was a prisoner in my body unlike what everyone else believed he never left my side his breathing was my only comfort for a while I used to be entertained by my father when he entered my room at night and started moving my body left and right to help my blood circulate once he was done he'd sit beside me and talk with me for an hour or so about his day like he used to before but that didn't last for long the last talk he had with me was about how tired he was both physically and mentally that he was very upset he'd lost his little girl the only person in the whole world who used to listen to him that day I heard him sobbing so loudly then he suddenly said I can no longer bear to look at you like this anymore after that he stopped talking to me all together a year quickly turned into two and I felt the person I used to be disappearing not just her body but also her memories my mom said that she'd had enough with my stuff taking up so much room and as she could put the space to good use my dad wasn't able to refuse so he just said that he'd moved my things too the treehouse it wasn't long until I was move out of my room to another one that was more practical and way smaller it had barely enough room for my bed machines and for one person to be able to move around in that was enough for me according to my mom what was worse was that this little room was next to the living room that meant that I could hear everything I mean literally down to the tiniest details two years turned to three and I was still in the same place with no one aware of my existence it was like I was a ghost whenever my mom's friends came to visit they used to ignore me as if I was just part of the furniture I was dead to everyone just not in the ground only snowball remained at my side my mom and her friends conversations were ridiculous they gossiped a lot and couldn't stop judging their relatives sometimes they talked about clothes travel and their husbands I once heard my mom talking ill about my dad she said he was the reason behind her and Happiness and that she had met some rich guy at a coffee shop that guy had invited her for a drink and she'd gone to meet him and now she was seriously considering leaving me and my dad for me that was the worst part about those three years feeling totally powerless and not being able to stand in front of her and not being able to scream you're an ungrateful woman all the things dad did for you and yet it's never enough now you want to leave him because some other guy has more money my poor dad didn't deserve my mom or even me I found myself in utter darkness and the darkness was swallowing my dad a pole I couldn't remember much about my life before the fall I was so terrified I'd forget everything I remembered having a friend called Maisy but I couldn't remember what we used to do or how we would spend time together I remember loving science but I no longer remembered any of the stuff that we'd learned at school at the same time my mind clung on to those memories and at the same time started creating new ones that hadn't existed before I had to find a way to stay here in this world even if I had to create my own world inside my head mazie became my best friend she always visited on Sundays

Channel: My Story Animated

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Keywords: problems, my story animated, stories, animation, short film, alone, storybook, story animated, animated story, truth, world, amazing

Id: 3fynUqrvzNY

Length: 10min 45sec (645 seconds)

Published: Sat Sep 14 2019