Amy Purdy
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literally purple.
Yeah, right.
They were losing all circulation.
And then I went into the induced coma.
And so that's my very last memory before.
You know, I remember so much of that time.
You know, you would think that you would kind of black it out because it's a traumatic time.
I remember so many details.
It's really interesting.
So, yeah, I ended up
in that induced coma for about two and a half weeks.
And then you're kind of in and out, you know, like I was awake and then all of a sudden you kind of slip back into it.
You're in and out for a little bit for say another like week or so.
And then, um, but I still was on life support when I woke up.
I still, um, because I was in kidney failure, my spleen had burst and was removed.
Um, my kind of everything was out of whack.
And so I was still hooked up to machines when I awoke from the coma.
Uh,
I still had tubes down my throat because my lungs had collapsed and needed help breathing.
And so I was awake during a period of time where I was hooked up to like a whole room of machines, but aware of what was going on.