Changing My Life Expectancy: A Personal Account

📺 The video is a life update about Shane, who has spinal muscular atrophy.

💔 Shane's medical equipment is not working at the moment.

✨ Shane and his girlfriend, Hannah, are going to the hospital for Shane's sixth treatment for his disease.

The video is about the speaker's experience with a medical procedure involving an injection into their neck.

The injection is performed with extreme delicacy to access the speaker's spinal cord.

The speaker is awake throughout the process, which feels surreal and unsettling.

🔑 The speaker reflects on the impact of a medical procedure on their life expectancy.

⏰ Without the medical procedure, their disease would progress and their life expectancy would decrease.

💥 The medical procedure unexpectedly changed the speaker's timeline for their life.

💉 The speaker has been receiving injections every four months for a year, which is crucial for their future stability.

😰 Depending on the ability to continue receiving the injections, the speaker feels terrified and uncertain about their future.

🤗 The speaker's partner has been supportive by understanding their internal struggles and providing comfort.

📅 Tomorrow, synthetic DNA will be injected into my spinal cord in a medical procedure.

😄 Life is weird, cruel, and full of excitement.

👤 The speaker expresses fear and discomfort about going into the procedure room.

💉 The speaker mentions their dislike for injections and the need to go through the process repeatedly.

😰 The speaker feels anxious until the procedure is over.