Amy Purdy
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And, um, in the hospital still for, yeah, so I was in the hospital for about two and a half months.
The first, this is in Vegas.
This is in Vegas.
And, um, I just, I honestly just entered the hospital feeling really sick and had no idea that I'd be, I mean, I was on my deathbed, like within 24 hours, I was absolutely fighting for my life.
And put into an induced coma because they didn't know what I had at this point.
So I entered the hospital.
They had no idea what I had except that I was in septic shock.
All my organs were failing and hemorrhaging.
Everything but my heart and my brain.
So all my other organs were hemorrhaging and not working.
And so they put me on life support right away.
Told my parents I had less than a 2% chance of living.
Yes, within the next day.
And then I was immediately put into an induced coma because my body was completely shutting down.
And that's how they try to kind of stabilize you a little bit.
Yeah, so you're not fighting so hard.
Yeah.
Yep.
And what does that mean?
How do you go in and they do, they give you some kind of, I forget what it's called, but they do, they give you some kind of thing in your IV.