Pascal’s DEATH experience (for 6 very long minutes!) … and 7 subsequent SURGERIES + dozens of procedures!
Bonjour my dearest Friends! 💖💗💖
Since very many of you have so kindly expressed a lot of interest in reading more about my crazy roller coaster of endless health “bad news “, struggles, and sheer bad luck😷🤒🤕 , undergoing by now 7 consecutive SURGERIES in A ROW over these past year or so, all starting with my MASSIVE HEART ATTACK during which I, very unfortunately, “died” for “only”😉 6 very VERY longggg minutes 😳- so I decided to group all of the various posts that I had done on Facebook and related to my little struggling health journey, here under for you to access as needed…
I truly hope that my modest words and sharings will both bring support and love to YOUR OWN journey and struggles, whichever they might be… and that they will also fill up your heart with endless gratefulness and sunshine 💗 if you happen to be so lucky as to NOT have any major health issues…
And all along I very sincerely hope that my words and sharings will also bring SMILES and LAUGHS to your day and reading of my posts from my playing silly and goofy at every opportunity I had while being in the midst of this endless roller coaster (and whenever my level of pain was temporarily bearable enough to give me a chance to be little me again! 😊🤓😜)… and such whether it was right during my many surgeries… or after… or during one of my sooooo many procedures and tests… or during my too many trips to the Emergency Room!
With much MUCH love to YOU 💗 as well as to all the people who live in your heart 💗
pascal
ps. of course by all means feel free to comment as you wish on any of my posts… share your own experiences… and ask me any questions at all that you would like for me to answer and write about.
As you probably know by now, my entire life is, by choice, a very open and very transparent book, one with endless new surprises, turns and twists… 😊 all while choosing a level of total vulnerability, sharing my deepest fears and worries just as much as my happiest and silliest moments… why not right ?
Life and emotions are too beautiful to be secretive, shameful, or un-shared… I truly believe that we are all one and the same, and that we all also have both suffering and joys in our lives, and in our hearts… and sharing it all allows us to connect so much more and on such a deeper level, with always so much more love and intimacy, and what could ever be more beautiful right!?…💗👫👬👭
ps2: …and if you would like to sprinkle your day with a few words of Love, Caring, Support and Inspiration, feel free to check this new section that I created on one of my websites… I truly hope that my modest words will bring some love to your day, and to you heart 💗http://photographybypascal.com/galleries/pascals-inspirational-series/
… and if you would like to enjoy even more INSPIRATION, LOVE and SUPPORT into your own journey ❤ feel free to take a peek into my modest BOOK by clicking here (it is now available on AMAZON). It has brought love and support to many… and it will bring a big smile to my own heart… if it brings love and support to yours 💕 Life is all about LOVE and PEOPLE and being there for each other… everything else is SO unimportant…
So after more than 2 years in the making my little book is finally completed and released 😍 and it features 100 of my original, and most popular, Inspirational Quotes (as well as very many of my Fine Art Photographs, and some of my Poetry as well), all spread out over 133 pages.
I truly hope that my modest quotes will humbly help you to dry a few tears (as they occasionally and inevitably come to our days, and to our souls, from life’s endless challenges and struggles), while also bringing endless smiles and joys to your lips, and to your heart 💗 on your very many todays, and tomorrows…
With much much (not a typo 🙂 ) love to YOU 💗
pascal
…and here is now for you, in REVERSE chronological order, a few of my posts (and copies of some of my Facebook posts) about a few of the milestones of my little health and “massive heart attack + 7 surgeries and countless procedures” roller coaster journey of those past few months…
* copy of one of my recent Facebook’s posts for my friends and followers *
… when you are being a “good patient” 😊🤓😉 and… “practicing positions” 😉 while waiting for your… urologists to come in… Yoga positions… “DRE” positions… all one and the same 😉 lol kind of 😉
… and when one of your Doctors (I now probably have close to 20 of them caring for me in various specialties and for various body parts hurting or malfunctioning… all of them trying to keep me around just a little longer 😉 which I am deeply GRATEFUL to them 💗 for of course! ) makes the BIGGGG MISTAKE to leave you alone with a brand new toy 🙂 … and you have NO CLUE about WHERE this one… is going to be inserted next inside your body?😉 lol* copy of one of my recent Facebook’s posts for my friends and followers *
Well… UNC made the BIGGGG mistake to… let me play with a machine once again!!! 😉 🙂
* copy of one of my recent Facebook’s posts for my friends and followers *
…when your KIDNEY SURGEON sends you a very special present in the mail… a beautiful orange container… and he asks you to… COLLECT ALL YOUR PEE in it for 48 HOURS!!!!
* copy of one of my recent Facebook’s posts for my friends and followers *
… when you, of course, can’t resist goofing around while struggling with a major tooth infection 😰and getting a full panoramic XRays…
No matter how much pain, there is still always room for us to have fun❤🐣❤ and bring laughters and smiles to the people around us…
ps: as a cute additional note and anecdote to share with you… you will crack up knowing that, on that same day, I was creating a full team GROUP PORTRAIT for a team of… yap… DENTAL SURGEONS! lol Life is super funny and cute like that oftentimes 😉😍😀 (here under 2 of the Photos created on that day… )
my 7th surgery… and YES, as depicted in this photo, I am now a PROFESSIONAL… NAPPER! 😉
* copy of one of my recent Facebook’s posts for my friends and followers *
MEDICATIONS / DRUGS interactions if you are taking many meds to “stay around” 😉 as I do…
…a little sharing for those of you who, unfortunately and fortunately, just like me, have one of those little bugger 😉 implanted deep inside
your chest… along with a few of those wires going inside your heart… such an AMAZINGGGGG miracle of technology isn’t it?…
💬 Super BRIEF ” FLASH Update “ 💬 😉🤒😍
Bonjour my Dearest Friends 💗
try to guess… where I am!? 😉 once again! 🙂
And guess what!? YES they made that hugeeee mistake once again to… let me play with the toys and entertain them! … all while getting ready for more XRays and MRI at UNC SPINE CENTER (due to new symptoms that I am dealing with).
UNC’s #1 RULE should always be ” DO NOT LET CHILDREN PLAY with the MEDICAL EQUIPMENT!!! ” just sayin’ 😉
With much MUCH love to YOU 💗
pascal
just another day in my little ” Let’s live on HALF A HEART! ” journey…
so, guess what!?… today is my 1 Year Anniversary from the day I died… for 4 very VERY long minutes !
what I must take every day… to stay around just a little longer 😉
rushing to UNC’s Emergency Room, ONCE AGAIN, in excruciating pain…
Well! let’s be very honest! my kidney stone surgery’s post op pain was… PURE HELL!
… a modest Thank You that I just posted about my AMAZING daughter and son…
update – pre surgery fun while running more tests the day before the surgery…
* update #25 * (Day 286! ) the “Hunt for the 5 sneaky kidney stones” continues !
update #22 – Day 241 post Heart Attack – trying to PLAY FISHY again… and swim laps again…
update #20 – 3rd infection of my Defibrillator’s scar/opening !…
Update #17 – barely a few weeks after my massive heart attack, “destiny” had decided that it wanted to throw a little bit more additional challenges to little me🤔🙄 and… within a matter of a few hours… I suddenly lost 90% of the use of my right arm, not even being able to hold a cup of water or feed myself anymore with my right hand (in addition to horrible sharp pain coming with it all) and after an emergency Brain + Spine MRI that very same day at UNC, it was decided that I now needed SPINAL FUSION SURGERY (for which, due to my way too recent heart attack, happened to be, as I was explained very quickly, incredibly RISKY, with 1 in 50 or so change to die (again 😉 in my case!) on the surgery table…
Well, I got super duper lucky 💗😊 and made it!!!… and did not die on the table…
Youpi YAYYYY to that! 🙂 all thanks to my AMAZING Spine SURGEON Dr. LIM and thanks to all the AMAZING Cardio team that was present… just in case 😉 )
This little video that I thought of sharing here, was the very beginning of a long PT Rehab, all starting the very next day of the surgery, at UNC Hillsborough… all and filmed (soo I would remember my exercises… and this moment) by my amazing ex companion Leah 💗 … and in the hands of my so wonderful Physical Therapist !
the beginning of everything: my MASSIVE and totally unexpected HEART ATTACK!!!…