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Alain A.

Mr. Alain A. does not remember his transfer to the hospital. During the two weeks of artificial coma, he remembers that he could hear the doctors and nurses but was unable to speak himself. His awakening was long and restless. It was reported that when he heard his family's voices over the phone, he moved his hands and his heart rate slowed.

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Mr. Alain A. was put into an artificial coma as an emergency.

Mr. Alain A, during his 10 days in an induced coma, remembers that he could hear the doctors and nurses but could not talk to them.

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So it happened at the beginning of March, I would say, where I started to have a little bit of, quite a bit of coughing; every time I spoke, it was accompanied by coughing problems. And on the evening of March 19th, an ambulance came to pick me up after my wife called the health care to say that I had to be hospitalized. And there, it's a period, from the 19th in the evening, until, I don't know, I'm going to say roughly, until the 30th, yes until the beginning of April, I tell myself. It's a period that I have a hard time remembering because I don't remember the transport from my home to the hospital. After that, I was immediately intubated and put in an induced coma for about ten days. During that time, I could hear people talking to me; the nurses and doctors, I could hear them well but I couldn't make any sound, obviously. Then, later on in my coma, and this is because I was told, my wife, my daughters talked to me a little bit and it seems that I had reactions with my hands. And my heart was calming down if you will, they told me that it was calming down when I heard the voices of my wife and daughters. And then from that, I have a vague memory of being in a coma where I felt like I was, I've told other media outlets that have interviewed me, I felt like I was on a white cloud and I was very, very, very good.

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