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Anna Ferguson

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632 total appearances

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

There was slight tumour progression and we decided that we weren't really getting where we wanted to get in Australia.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

We took Damien's medical care over to a clinic in Thailand.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

So they were doing metabolic therapies, which is essentially starving the tumour.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And so everything was going fine.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

He was actually responding really well.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

His movement was starting to come back on his left side.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

But then unfortunately, he got an infection in his PICC line, which is basically a line that they put in to give IVs and medications.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And from that point, it was just, it was downhill.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

His body was trying to fight off this infection.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

It was maybe caught a couple of days later than it...

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

was necessary.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And the day that we ended up going into hospital in Thailand, I woke up, I went into the room, Damon looked at me and he said, I'm sorry, I love you.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And I, I just, I broke down in that moment.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

I was like, something's seriously wrong.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And I think he's going to die.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And so we went in the ambulance to the hospital and I've seen a million MRIs on his brain.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

to know that I was, like, spying through the door to look at the MRI.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

And I saw this MRI and I was like, holy shit, like, this is really bad.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

So where his tumour previously was, it was very isolated to his motor cortex.

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Anna the anxiety coach on surviving a roller coaster accident and healing her nervous system

It was very small.