Celebrating Coma Day: 5 Explorations of Covert Awareness

Coma Day Comedy: Miming My Mind

On Coma Day, I awoke from a coma-dream of man-eating, sentient office equipment into a situation hardly more believable.

I was in a coma for six weeks? I nearly died? But I was just having a bad night’s sleep! (Or so I thought.)

It soon became clear that I needed to show everyone that I was still completely me. My typically overly blunt — does that sound familiar? — mom had laid out all the bleak details of my previously grim prognosis, including my doctors’ belief that I was hopeless vegetable.

I could tell that I was in no sense profoundly brain damaged. Yet how could I convince everyone of that when I couldn’t speak and was so weak I could barely lift my head?

Read more: Happy Coma Day!

Photo credits:

1. Stephanie Savage
2. Keith Onstad
3. Pixabay, Pixabay, Max Pixel, all public domain. Designed by Stephanie Savage
4. A Dream of a Girl Before Sunrise, by Karl Briullov, public domain.
5. Keith Onstad.

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