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As Matthew Cardinal drifted in and out of consciousness, he saw more people like him being brought into the intensive care unit.
They were young, otherwise healthy, and all brought within an inch of death by a variant of COVID-19 tearing through southern Saskatchewan.
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“When I was in ICU, I was literally waiting for my turn to die,” Cardinal said from his bed at Regina General Hospital on Easter Monday.
“Seeing everyone in there, the way they were, it was one of the scariest things in my life. They kept bringing me out of a coma, a medically induced-coma, to see how I was doing. Each time I would come out of it, I would see people being wheeled in. And it was so depressing to see so many young people going in there.”
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