Aukai the Angel's Independence

*Aukai has just discharged from a 6 month hospitalization (he was in the hospital for most of the year); because he was hospitalized for so long he lost his independent living. (he is currently home with Mom). Here's part of his story, in his own words:

"When I had my accident I was dead for almost 11 minutes. During that time I
met Jesus, but he told me it wasn't my time. And he gave me a choice that I
could either go with him to Heaven or return and I would have to face many
difficulties but would find happiness eventually.
Then I was in a coma for about five days. During my time in that coma I
went to a place called Eagle Peak. A Buddhist temple on the top of the
mountains in India. I recall walking across the desert into a tropical rain
forests to the base of the mountain up the mountain onto snow caps
eventually to this Buddhist temple.
After I woke up from my coma I was in traction and on a ventilator a type
of breathing machine. I couldn't move I was in a MANOVA brace for about a
year and a half. The doctors couldn't figure out why I wasn't getting
healthier. They found out I had some sort of virus called Fabrill on my
lungs. The water that I had drowned in was really dirty, all sorts of dead
fish animals motor engine oil and gasoline was in that water. It was not
until my mom finally figured out after she saw the hospital nurse flushing
my feeding peg tap water. The virus WAS IN THE tapwater. She asked the nurse is
the filtration system on the hospital water. And the nurse replied no this
is Hawaii. We have the cleanest water in the world. She went home and
thought about it the next day brought distilled water and instructed the
nurses that I was only to have distilled water to flush my peg and
swab my mouth with.
That wasn't the first time my mom saved my life. Then later while I was in
the rehab of the Pacific. I still had a tracheotomy and had to be fed
through a feeding peg going into my stomach. The reason I had the
tracheotomy was my lungs was full of mucus (ewww) and needed to be
suctioned. Basically they would stick a tube connected to a vacuum machine.
They would suck it all out of my throat.
So one morning I was just laying back there, (they had me in the room
farthest away from the nurses station even though I was the most acute
patient) and I started to have trouble breathing so I figured I should call
the nurse. A few minutes went by maybe like 10, and nobody came. So I hit
the call bell a couple more time I waited about another 15 to 20 minutes.
By this time it was getting really hard to breathe. And I was starting to
become a little anxious which made the mucus buildup thicker and made it
harder for me to breathe. After about a half hour I realized no one was
coming. I looked up and I thank God for letting me return to say I love you
to my family. Just as I was about to close my eyes I turned my head and
guess who walks in the door. My mom. By this time my face was blue she runs
over to me blows a big breath of air down my throat. And I took a deep
breath and said I thought that that was it. Needless to say I was on the
medevac ride home next week or so."