Amy Purdy

Um, it shaped my life.

So that's why it's, it's so important for me.

So when I was, when I was in the coma that I was in and I was, um, it was that first week, which was the most critical when I was in the hospital.

So it was really kind of touch and go as far as, um, I was hooked up to all these machines and this is just, you know, I heard this from my nurses, doctors, and parents because I was out of it, obviously.

But, um, my blood pressure was,

would crash and my heart rate would shoot up.

It was 244 beats per minute.

And I actually stayed that way for about a week and a half, just fluttering in my chest.

And for one, they said if I wasn't as young as I was or as strong as I was, because I was working out a lot at that time, that my heart probably wouldn't have been able to sustain that.

But so my my blood pressure would crash, my heart rate would go up, then my heart rate would crash, my blood pressure would go up.

And it was just this constant all day for, you know, a couple days there of just.

being on the edge.

They'd think that I was going, bring my whole family in, everybody would start praying.

All of a sudden I'd come back.

Yeah.

There was a lot of that that happened.

And then they had to come in with the chest shockers and shock my heart back into the rhythm.

And so the first few days for my family was just, I mean, every five minutes was a kind of a different story for everybody.

those few days.

And so at the same time, um, apparently my stomach started to get kind of bigger and, um, and they were taking my blood and realizing that my red blood count was low.