Courtney

And so they would just come to my room and they're like, all right, that's your time to do your rehab.

And so I had to do that every day, no breaks.

And, yeah, they're just saying, like, we ought to get her, like, after she's, like, able to get out of the ICU, we need to transfer her to, like, a rehab center.

Like, a neuro rehab center.

So she could do...

inpatient rehab.

And my mom was like, okay, I'll try to do some research in inpatient rehabs, inpatient hospital rehabs, neuro rehabs that are close by where we live.

And so she was just doing that, doing her research.

But yeah, it was that first night.

I just remember wanting water so bad, wanting water so bad.

And I was finally able to get the word out, like water.

And then they were able to get me some water, but then I started to cough it up.

Because you couldn't swallow?

I couldn't swallow.

And that's when they realized my...

my swallowing ability was also taken.

And so I had to get a feeding tube because they needed to get like, you know, nutrients, like water in me, but I couldn't swallow so they had to put a feeding tube in.

And I was, the feeding tube was in for like,

a week, week and a half.

And because until like I had to do rehab to, you know, learn how to, for those muscles to, you know, start to work.