Poems and creative writing by cardiac arrest survivors and their families — raw, honest expressions of survival, recovery and the emotions that sometimes only words can reach.
I wanted to get some words out of my head today. Go easy on me; I’ve never written anything like this before… Building a man Where once, a stone of a man had stood, left now is a broken body, a heart no good. A fall from a place so safe and warm, into the … Read more
Seven minutes of my life are missing. All is black.All is silent. There is no consciousness, no awareness, no realisation of unconsciousness. It is silent, amorphous, a world without verbs or adjectives.None are possible.They don’t exist.Neither do I. “Hello ! Can you hear me David ?”I do not respond.“Can you hear me David ? Do … Read more