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(#13) An Inability To Regain Full Consciousness
Kelly dishes on his deep sleep on page six:
I've only been asleep for a couple of hours but I feel delirious. It's a struggle to come to consciousness enough to move, to tell her [Amiko] how awful I feel.
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(#5) Waves Of Nausea
Kelly's fear is palpable on page six:
I'm seriously nauseated now, feverish, and my pain has gotten worse. This isn't like how I felt after my last mission. This is much, much worse.
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(#10) Legs Like "Alien Stumps" And Ankles Swollen To A Bursting Point
Kelly writes on page seven of Endurance:
I can feel the tissue in my legs swelling. I shuffle my way to the bathroom, moving my weight from one foot to the other with deliberate effort. Left. Right. Left. Right. I make it to the bathroom, flip on the light, and look down at my legs. They are swollen and alien stumps, not legs at all. 'Oh sh*t,' I say. 'Amiko, come look at this.' She kneels down and squeezes one ankle, and it squishes like a water balloon. She looks up at me with worried eyes. 'I can't even feel your ankle bones,' she says.
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(#1) A Burning Rash All Over His Skin
Kelly discovered a strange rash:
'My skin is burning, too,' I tell her. Amiko frantically examines me. I have a strange rash all over my back, the backs of my legs, the back of my head and neck – everywhere I was in contact with the bed.
I can feel her cool hands moving over my inflamed skin. 'It looks like an allergic rash,' she says. 'Like hives.'
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(#6) Muscles And Joints Feeling Prematurely Aged
Kelly wrote about his experience in the Sydney Morning Herald:
It's March 2016, and I've been back on Earth, after a year in space, for precisely 48 hours. I push back from the table and struggle to stand up, feeling like a very old man getting out of a recliner.
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(#11) An Altered Sense Of Gravity
On page 79 of Endurance, Kelly talks about his skewed sense of gravity:
I’m often still disoriented about how my body is positioned. I’ll wake up convinced that I’m upside down, because in the dark and without gravity, my inner ear just takes a random guess on the position of my body in the small space.
When I turn on a light, I have a sort of visual illusion that the room is rotating rapidly as it reorients itself around me, though I know it’s actually my brain readjusting in response to new sensory input.
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Scientists have been studying the effects of space travel on the human body. Researchers from multiple institutions in the United States conducted comparative studies on American astronaut Scott Kelly who after 340 days on the International Space Station and his twin brother Mark Kelly. They collected and analyzed the health conditions of the twins.
The study found that Scott Kelly's carotid arteries, retina, and gut microbes had changed. Most of these changes were restored within 6 months after returning to earth, but a small part is long-term potential damage. The random tool lists 13 things that happened after Scott Kelly got back from space.
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