Two new posts in one day! WOW you are lucky!

I gave my 101 class the assignment to write a process driven essay and challenged myself to do the same. I wrote one during my first year at college, I even posted a revised version of it here as one of my first posts. Here is what I have so far, this is the opening three paragraphs. I'll try to post the rest of it was I complete it section by section along with the students.

Cheers,
Price

The Art of What to do when in a Coma

It is a commonly held myth that when you are in a coma there is little to do apart from lie there and be comatose. I would argue that this is absolutely untrue. The fact of the matter is, when you are in a coma—and many of will just have to take my word for this since you will probably never be in a coma—you can pretty much do just about anything that a fully functioning human can do. Now, I don’t mean that “in your head” you can do these things; no, I mean that even though you are in a state of essential mental and physical vegetation you are still capable of interacting with the people around you.
How is this possible? Are you having an out of body experience like Patrick Swayze in Ghost? When in a coma do you really get to see and talk with angels? Is it like having a near death experience? Do you actually get to see what goes on in the 90% of your brain that you don’t use for all the innate day-to-day interactions that one must endure? Do you get superpowers that enable you to move things with your mind and influence the decisions of others? I know that may of you are asking this same questions and I will get to those answers in a moment—yes to a few, no to a few more, and I wish to the last one; but for the time being, lets focus on exactly what may have landed you in this predicament and a few of the steps that any regular person can take to prepare for the possibility of being comatose at a later date.
You never know when a coma will sneak up on you--they are somewhat like a ninja in that regards, a really good ninja who comes up from behind and hits you with a ninja-silent kung-fu chop to the sciatic. Not only do you not see this ninja coma avenger coming at you because he attacks from behind, but his silent attack is so quick that more often than not you are not even aware that you have been coma chopped. This was the case for me. I was sitting there, minding my own business, enjoying a leisurely climb up the main peak of the Grand Teton, and the next thing I know I’m waking up in a hospital bed three months later. What happened in the mean time? How was I able to entertain myself, I tend to have a very short attention span, for such a long time? Why was it that I had no recollection of the events that had taken place in my hospital room? How had I gone to the restroom … oh, wait, I think I have that one figured out … yeah, that’s not really comfortable! These, and many others, were the immediate questions that I had running through my head as I slowly returned to the world of the lucid. Looking back, I know that the experience was one filled with adventure, humor, and mindless (pun intended) pranks. So, for the rest of you I submit the following guide for what to do when you too enter a coma. Consider this a list of tools at your disposal