Waking up in an unfamiliar place, with having no memory of how you got there, can be scary to say the least. However, when it is in the critical care unit of a major trauma center, it can be downright frightening. That is what happened to Dr. Dan L. Macumber in June of 1998. It was also a turning point in his life that he never saw coming. He was told that he had survived viral encephalitis from a tick bite and had been in a coma for the past 2 weeks. Following a near death experience while in the hospital, he found that he was forever changed in ways that one can only imagine. Dr. Dan...