Published: August 17, 2018
After three weeks it was looking likely that my life support was going to be turned off
I was 30 when I went into a coma for three and a half weeks. I had spent the previous decade of my life as an alcoholic and drug addict, and had been managing my type 1 diabetes increasingly poorly. I was even selling my prescription blood sugar test strips on Craigslist, to make extra money to pay for marijuana and support my work as a standup comic. This meant I had no idea how much insulin to take at any given time.
I’d graduated years ago, but was continuing to drink as though I was still in college, and smoking weed every day. Things got so bad I sliced my face open by cycling into a car door when drunk. I was depressed and trying to self-medicate.
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