I was in a coma for nine days. When I woke up I was still on a ventilator. When they took me off the ventilator, my body didn’t remember to breathe on its own. I literally had to relearn how to breathe. It took me a few days. I had no natural sense for how long or deeply to inhale, how long to hold it, how long to exhale. I had to put all my mental focus on breathing. It was really weird.
On a brighter note, my ex-wife at the time stood beside me the whole time and no we are back together and closer than we ever were.