Q I mean, just the moment of waking up, like you write it in the story and it's so powerful. You say the anesthesiologist stepped into the room, count backwards. Anyone who's had surgery knows this, right? Count backwards, 10. Nine, eight, darkness, and you write, in my mind, I traveled a million miles, and then a funny thing happened. I woke up. What was it like waking up?
A Um, I think, first of all, I was under a lot of drugs. So, you know, anyone who's woken up from anesthesia knows, you're sort of feeling a little bit high, quite literally. Um, But of ultimate, like, relief, and almost in the, in the hours and the days that followed, um, a sense of euphoria, which I've been very, like, fortunate to talk with a lot of people in the last year or so that have gone through these experiences, and there is this, like, survivor's euphoria that you feel, and I think I, I was beginning to feel it in that moment of, Okay, I made it. Like, everything's different now. Um, all of the, like, things that I thought were important before, um, recalibrating what actually is important.
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