Seven years ago, Katrina O’Neil was playing baseball when she went into cardiac arrest and was without oxygen for 22 minutes.
Then only 29 years old, she went into a coma for three weeks. When she woke up, she thought she was 15.
“I didn’t really recognize the people around me,” said O’Neil, who moved to Fredericton four years ago but was living in Cambridge, Ont., at the time of her cardiac arrest. “I reverted back to being a child and just wanted my mom right there. Because that’s what my brain was telling me — that I was just a child.”
Most of O’Neil’s memories of
