Today is an important day for me, and not just because it’s my birthday…

I mean, yeah, today is my birthday, but there’s another reason today matters to me. April 16 isn’t just the day of my birth… not anymore.

April 16 is the 43rd anniversary of the day I was born…. but it’s also the two-year anniversary of the day I was give a second chance at life.

Two years ago, today…

I was in a coma.

I had been that way for a week. I had undergone an emergency surgery in an attempt to save my life, and...