weeks and they couldn t wake me up and i was extremely ill. i think the doctor said you had a 95% chance of dying. 5% chance of living, yeah. and three times, they rang my family up to say that. and if i did recover, i would have severe brain damage, which i hope i haven t. well, we see no evidence! yeah, we ll take a vote on that. but i was, they couldn t get me out of my coma, and itjust happened that derriford hospital, that i was in, was the first hospital in britain to have a healing garden attached to the intensive care unit. and i was wheeled out into that. and the first memory i have from that hallucination time, when i was suffering, when i was in a coma, was waking up in that garden. i was only the second person to be wheeled into it. and i rememberwaking up, seeing the sun and smelling the flowers and saying in a croaky voice through my tracheostomy tube, i m going to live. and i did. and so, i ve become evangelical now about hospital gardens being a way of showing the hea
get me out of my coma, and itjust happened that derriford hospital, that i was in, was the first hospital in britain to have a healing garden attached to the intensive care unit. and i was wheeled out into that. and the first memory i have from that hallucination time, when i was suffering, when i was in a coma, was waking up in that garden. i was only the second person to be wheeled into it. and i rememberwaking up, seeing the sun and smelling the flowers and saying in a croaky voice through my tracheostomy tube, i m going to live. and i did. and so, i ve become evangelical now about hospital gardens being a way of showing the healing power of nature, which actually worked for me, and works for everyone. and what is becoming more and more aware partly as a result, i say, of covid. but do you think, to use the terrible cliche, that covid is a wake up call for us all, that there is something desperately out of kilter between our, that is human as a species,
yeah. march, 2020. and i was in a coma forfive weeks and they couldn t wake me up and i was extremely ill. i think the doctor said you had a 95% chance of dying. 5% chance of living, yeah. and three times, they rang my family up to say that. and if i did recover, i would have severe brain damage, which i hope i haven t. well, we see no evidence! yeah, we ll take a vote on that. but i was, they couldn t get me out of my coma, and itjust happened that derriford hospital, that i was in, was the first hospital in britain to have a healing garden attached to the intensive care unit. and i was wheeled out into that. and the first memory i have from that hallucination time, when i was suffering, when i was in a coma, was waking up in that garden. i was only the second person to be wheeled into it. and i rememberwaking up, seeing the sun and smelling the flowers and saying in a croaky voice through my tracheostomy tube, i m going to live. and i did. and so, i ve become evangelical now about