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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

Now his tumour had basically, it was everywhere.

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

It was all over his brain.

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

And his midline of his brain was being pushed from the left side to the right side.

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

So it was intense pain.

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

It was very touch and go.

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

The doctors were great.

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

They worked very hard to reduce all of the inflammation.

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

The decision was made.

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

I mean, I had to make a million decisions and it felt like I was playing God, which was terrifying.

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

But I mean, miraculously, I stayed as calm as I possibly could throughout this because I didn't want Scout to be scared.

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

I didn't want her to...

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

know that things could be as terrible as possible outcomes.

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

So we ended up getting medevaced back to Australia and we actually arrived back on Damien's birthday and there was a series of unfortunate events and he was being actively palliated without any conversation with me.

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

They gave him fentanyl because he was very uncomfortable, but obviously it put him into a catatonic state.

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

And so from that, when they were doing his neurological tests and stuff, they said, there's nothing we can do.

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

This was all without a conversation.

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

I went and had a lie down for half an hour.

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

I mean, ironically, it's always when you leave the room that things happen.

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

And so I was like kicking myself that I wasn't there for it.

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

But I found out about...