My partner was in a 10-day medically induced coma after a botched wisdom tooth removal. It was just weeks before our wedding.

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Sometimes, life really does change in an instant. One minute, my fiancé Storm and I were on the couch, editing our wedding mood board and listing our guests' dietary requirements. The next, he was in a medically induced coma after emergency surgery to drain an abscess in his neck muscles caused by a wisdom tooth removal gone seriously wrong.