ICU mirage

 A few days after my brain surgery I had a HEAVY night, I "saw" two rather frightening apparitions in my ICU room, firstly a woman with glowing eyes staring at me and strangely enough Rosie the robot from the Jetsons stood motionless in the corner. Needless to say these made for a rather difficult night shall we say, but in the morning these turned out respectively to be ICU equipment LED light reflection on glass and my paper towel dispenser lol. There's always a rational explanation!!! Also the constant beeping of all the equipment gave me hearing loss (temporary threshold shift (TTS) so I woke up massively depressed believing my eyesight and hearing to be reduced to a level unacceptable for the quality of life I have grown accustomed to and resigned myself to believe that the remainder of my days would be acceptable but not amazing as it had been up until that point. I thought I would never gain be able to appreciate my wife's beautiful voice nor would I get to see my daughter grow up in brilliant technicolor. I also thought I would never be able to listen to my favourite music at the sound quality I demand nor be able be able to watch Tron Legacy in 4k HDR lol - but here we are, I just watched it now on Disney+. Isn't life grand!!! #luckyatheist . Protect your eyes and ears folks, your quality of life may bereduced if you don't.

Shout out to Chante the amazing occupational therapist who came to see me shortly after I woke up and who upon hearing my concerns did a few tests on me which reassured me that my eyesight and my hearing were fine - this immediately relieved my depression and I was able to look to the future with the rose tinted glasses I always seem to have on.

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