![]() "I was on life support with a breathing machine, with tubes and wires on every part of my body, and a breathing tube down my throat. "All I could do when I woke up in ICU was blink my eyes," he remembered. But in an exclusive interview with the Guardian, he gave a rare and detailed insight into what it is like to be "locked in". Marsh has never spoken publicly about his experience before. If they did know anything, it was usually because they'd had a paragraph about it during their medical training. ![]() Lots of the doctors and medical experts I saw didn't even know what locked-in was. "They don't know why I recovered because they don't know why I had locked-in in the first place or what really to do about it. But it's still a mystery as to why he recovered when the vast majority of locked-in syndrome victims do not. He describes the feeling of accomplishment at being able to scratch his own nose again. The first sign that Marsh was recovering was with twitching in his fingers which spread through his hand and arm. "But an almost complete paralysis of nearly all the voluntary muscles in my body." Shut in syndrome full#"I had full cognitive and physical awareness," he said. Marsh was aware, alert and fully able to feel every touch to his body. Nothing could have been further from the truth. The medics believed he was in a persistent vegetative state, devoid of mental consciousness or physical feeling. ![]() He was determined to walk out of the intensive care unit and he wanted everyone to know it.īut Marsh couldn't tell anyone that. Marsh, a former police officer and teacher, had strong views on that suggestion. ![]()
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