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After waking to a nurse cleaning my tracheostomy and NG tube, a clinical psychologist entered my room. “Hi, Cavin. My...
After waking to a nurse cleaning my tracheostomy and NG tube, a clinical psychologist entered my room. “Hi, Cavin. My...
I remember a young MD entering my room, a line of residents following behind him. He carried himself with an...
I woke up in an unfamiliar room with no memory of what I was doing there. I opened my mouth...
My half flaccid and half spastic body was transferred to a cot. I was wheeled out of the room, down...
Word that I had stood had travelled from therapists, nurses, doctors, and then to the social worker who I was...
Atrophy refers to the partial or complete wasting away of a part of the body commonly due to prolonged inactivity....
My next memory takes place during the day. My mother sat in a chair next to my inclined hospital bed....
This is the second in a series of podcasts with Dr. Alex Vasquez, DO, ND, DC. Be sure to check...
My next memory takes place in a white walled room with no windows. A calendar hung on the wall that...
“Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today’s events.”– Albert Einstein Memory is indeed deceptive. A memory is influenced,...
It was Saturday, June 4th, 2011 and I was in the stepdown unit at Elmhurst hospital in Queens, New York,...
A video was taken on May 30th, 2011. I was originally extubated (taken off of a respirator) on May 20th...
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