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My journey...escape from Mordor

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I hope my family and friends never fully understand over-stimulation.

For them to fully understand would mean they also have a brain injury, not something I would wish on anyone. They can experience it for a few minutes in different venues but for many of us it is not something we can walk away from and it is fine after that. We wake up with the potential for it to happen and if we are lucky we make it through the day with our thought process in whatever version of intact exists for us.   Sometimes I try to explain but often it is met with a lack of understandi
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Well, that was exciting

I can now state with some authority that bleeding out is neither peaceful nor painless, contrary to what some people think..   The tale starts last Friday. The pool needed some chlorine tabs and a quick brushing, standard maintenance stuff. I put the chlorine in the dispenser and noticed I was more tired then I thought but carried on to brush the pool. I got about halfway done and was exhausted and my breathing was very heavy. Made it back into the house somehow, don't remember and collapsed o
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Oriented x 1, Where am I and why

I've got some time to kill, I'll continue if no one minds...   At this point,I'm documenting what I've been told happened with some 'snapshot' memories included.   I'm told I was posting on Facebook that night to calm down family who were excited about the event. I've seen the posts but this will be part of my memory that is lost to me.   Off to the OR, I'm told the nurses went ahhh when I said something to my wife about who owned my heart. I'm in a white room on my back, can't move but t
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I guess we need to start at the beginning

All good tales start at the beginning, who wants to walk into the middle. They tell me that this is good therapy, I need to face my demons, we'll see.   The date was 14 Oct 2014, a day like any other. Sunny and warm (this is Florida after all) and I had an appointment with the dentist. That went as expected and he gave me a script for amoxicillian, I've taken that many times and it always worked well. So, I returned home from the drug store and went into my home office to do some work. Cleared
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