Back to Life After Months in the ICU: “It’s Not Like in the Movies You Wake up and You’re Phenomenal”

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When Juan de Dios del Moral woke up in that room of Fuenlabrada University Hospital in Madrid, he found himself full of cables, unable to move or speak. It was 2023 and he was 67 years old. He had arrived at the ICU after suffering complications during an operation. The retired construction worker was being treated for cancer. He had just received chemotherapy sessions and had to undergo an intervention to remove the tumor he still had in his bo…