🏥 Today is an Anniversary 🏥

On this Saturday one decade prior, I was not alive.

Firefighters broke down the door. Hypoxic body moved to the floor.
EMT slit my throat. Primed the airway for life support.
Defibrillators fired off. Electric reset, buffers gone.
Brain remained offline, machines keeping in-time.

While the medical pathways may describe, too many emotions remain intertwined. The neural surgeons, the ER team, and everyone else in between, they simply said that I was gone. We had both died, one twin following the other, yet against all odds till on this day — today — I am somehow still alive.

Today I am 3,655 days old 🩷

Hello Fediverse! It's time for a new instance #introduction, having recently migrated to BSD.Cafe :freebsd_logo: from hachyderm.io.

The neurosurgeons said I wouldn't wake up from the coma, but they were wrong.
Then they said I'd never walk or talk again, but they were wrong.

I never expected to reach forty, and so often now I wonder, "how long will the 🧠 tumor let me live?"

Professionally, I'm a Principal Systems Architect focused on performance engineering for "global edge compute" workloads. This year marks two ticks from having worked for a quarter-century in the tech industry. 💾 :sparc64: 🥰

Personally, my interests range from backcountry telemark skiing and long-range marksmanship in the wilderness, to berries and bunnies and everything in-between as long as it's cute and pink and sweet and made of hearts! 💗

#introduction #womenInTech #womenInSTEM #engineering #bsd #tech #pink #systems #cute #hearts #yesyesyes