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On Nov. 7, 2022, Bob Greene suffered a heart attack during a beer-league hockey game.
Greene says he was unconscious when he hit the ice and remained so in the hospital.
Greene: The doctors delayed emergency cardiac treatment because they thought my brain was dying and I was never coming back.
He says he emerged as a head without a body from a rabbit hole where he lost his sense of self.
A year ago, the last time I talked to my mother, she hadn’t known who I was.
My mother died from a succession of collapses.
She was resuscitated repeatedly and left dangling until the next trip to the ICU.
She rehabbed and never got better. I didn't want to end up like my mother. I wanted to go heel-to-heel like Sidney Crosby.
Two weeks after my cardiac arrest, I played hockey again, in the makeup for the game canceled because of my apparent death.
Playing hockey was the only sense of community I felt these days.
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