My brain woke up after the painkillers left my bloodstream. All I could hear inside my head was... "Write the book." I didn't understand, and soon, painkillers were needed once again. When I rid myself of them a second time, the words turned into a demand. "Write the book!" Enter my world as I navigate through the unknown. Let me lead you through my dance with emotional highs and lows and show you how the kindness of others lifted me up. This is a story of an ordinary individual battling through an extraordinary experience, with a virus no one understands, during a year no one saw coming.