Amy Purdy

And I remember my, it was a really big deal.

Yeah.

My, it was really hard for my parents.

You can imagine because, uh, you know, they didn't know if they'd see me again.

So this was like, I remember I actually was awake when my dad signed the papers to like basically provide

Put me on life support.

You're going to – you'll die if we don't do this.

Yeah.

So because I wasn't breathing – not that I wasn't breathing good.

I was gasping for air because my lungs had failed.

Or had collapsed.

So I just remember –

you know, gasping for air and, uh, and that my dad was signing this paperwork and everyone was crying.

And that was like my last memory.

You know what?

there's always humor and tragedy.

And I remember it feeling so surreal, like an outer body experience and thinking, you guys, aren't we taking this a little seriously?

You know, even though I was, I didn't, but it was in, it was kind of in the back of my head, even though I was like gasping for air and I'm like, I'm dying, I'm dying.

I'm, you know, but in the back of my mind, somehow there was this disconnect of like,

Everybody here thinks I'm going to die.