The speaker experienced a severe malaria episode that led to a coma, requiring IV quinine treatment.

“I was in a coma a few years ago just uh God it was a strange night or I started feeling sick the night before is on a Tuesday night and started taking I took some oral drugs I think kartum which is um Arin and derivative took that at night I went to bed just kind of had a kind of fitful sleep and then I woke up the next morning and all these staff in my room I have an IV in my arm and I'm IV quinning like what what's going on here the doctor needed treatment that's right but I was really out of it”