“I was stuck in this horrific panic that wouldn’t leave.”
“It was just really scary in there,” he recalled.
“I was tied down from my wrist, my waist, and my ankles.
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And all I wanted to do was escape the whole time I was there.
‘Get me outta here!
Get me outta here!
Get me out!’
They didn’t know what I had for about a month, maybe two months.”
To him, it was like “the end of the world.”
“I felt a real cold rush in me,” he said.
“And then that night I was shaking like a fish out of water and crying like a baby.
This had never happened in my life.
Paula’s on the bed and I’m like, ‘Baby, I’m done.
What’s going on with me?'”
He continued, “In a calm voice, she says, ‘Honey, you’re fine.
You’re gonna be fine.’
I was stuck in this horrific panic that wouldn’t leave.”
Can somebody like save me?'"
That’s what I thought about every day the tree," he said.
“And I just did everything that I possibly could to survive.”
“That’s the key to me, opening up to you right now as deep as I can.
Because I know other people are listening.”
