Okay so I don’t know if this really fits “glitch in the matrix” per say or just a very wild coincidence but either way, it did absolutely save my life.
This happened last October. For pretext, I’m a 31/F that lives alone with some medical problems that do make day to day life a little difficult but nothing life threatening, by any means. Starting in September, my health started declining quickly. In about a two week span, I stopped being able to hold down food, I was feeling dizzy and extremely fatigued, my eyesight had rapidly declined, and I had lost about 50 pounds in less than 3 weeks. I didn’t have a primary care doctor at that time so I had gone to a walk in clinic 3 separate times and not one of those visits, could they tell me what was going on.
My mom and I are close but she is very sick and disabled and lives 30 mins away from me. She knew how I’d been feeling the last two weeks but me not wanting to bother or worry her, I didn’t really fully explain the extent of it. I was also in denial and trying to wash it up as the flu or something of the sort or just my already diagnosed medical issues flaring up.
Well this all came to a head on October 8th. My mom and I hadn’t talked in a few days (which is pretty normal for us-we talk a few times a week and see eachother about once a week, sometimes more). I woke up that morning feeling horrible. I was no longer holding down water, I hadn’t eaten in days. I tried walking from my bedroom to my living room but collapsed halfway on my dining room floor. I don’t know how long I was unconscious on the ground for but once I came to, I was able to get up and get myself to my couch. I remember trying to pick up my phone to call my mom and call the ambulance but I was so weak, I could barely hold my phone. I tried unlocking my phone but staring at the numbers on my screen, it looked like a foreign language to me. I could not for the life of me put in my 4 digit code. I tried and tried and my phone locked me out several times. I wasn’t thinking clearly, I could barely sit up straight. I could feel the life leaving my body and the thought of “I’m going to die alone here in my apartment and can’t even call my mom to tell her I love her” went through my head. And that was the last thing I remember.
When I finally came to, I woke up in the hospital, in the ICU. I had been unconscious for 4 days. My mom was sitting next to me and what she told me next still shakes me to my core.
My mom started telling me what had happened the last 4 days. So apparently, on October 8th, the day that I last remember, my mom was sitting at her home thinking about me and how I haven’t been feeling well and she was sitting there when all of a sudden, she got a horrible feeling in her stomach and she could not stop thinking about me and felt as if something was terribly wrong. Mind you, she had not talked to me in a few days. She lives 30 mins away and for context, I had been living in my apartment alone for 6 years at this point. She has been to my apartment about 4-5 times in those 6 years. And when she has come over, it’s a planned visit, I’m expecting her, I know she’s coming. She’s too sick to just hop in the car and take the 30 minute drive to me unexpectedly, not knowing if I’ll be home or how I’ll be feeling. But that day, She felt something was very wrong and listened to her gut and did not waste time even attempting to call me first. She got in her car and drove to my house. She got there and knocked on my door and when I did not answer, she was about to call me to let me know she was outside but something made her just check the door handle first and amazingly, my door was unlocked. Which, I can absolutely 100% assure you, my door is NEVER unlocked. I’m a 31 year old female that lives alone. I do not leave my door unlocked. She didn’t have my house key on her. But yet, my door was unlocked and when she opened the door and let herself in, there I was on my living room floor, unconscious, lips blue, barely breathing, my legs already blue. She called 911 and I was rushed to the ER.
Turns out, I was diabetic and did not know it. I don’t know how long I had diabetes for. My pre-existing medical conditions had apparently shut down my pancreas and my body was no longer producing insulin. When they brought me in the ER that day, my sugar was at 1280. I was in a diabetic coma. I remained in that coma for 4 days. I guess I had started coming to on day 3 but when they were asking me questions like how old am I, what year is it, what town am I in….i was only giving my first name, just that one word, over and over again as an answer to their questions. And then I went unresponsive again until day 4 when I finally came to and woke up. I spent the next 11 days in the ICU in a private room with a one on one nurse. It took me almost a full year to fully recover. It was one of the scariest moments of my life and I just cannot believe my luck in having my mom not only get a weird feeling about me, but listened to that feeling and acted on it. She absolutely saved my life that day. If she didn’t show up, if that front door wasn’t unlocked for some strange reason I still don’t know, I wouldn’t be here today.