On July 10, 1986, Garcia slipped into a diabetic coma as the result of an infection from an abscessed tooth and was admitted to Marin General Hospital in California, as The Los Angeles Times reported several days later. His blood sugar was so high that his kidneys had shut down, according to The Wrap, and his wife at the time, Carolyn Adams (better known as Mountain Girl), said his heart had stopped.
Of course, as fans are well aware, Garcia's time on this planet wasn't over yet. After five days, Garcia woke up...and the story he shared later of what he experienced was nothing short of psychedelic.
"My main experience was one of furious activity and tremendous struggle in a sort of futuristic, space-ship vehicle with insectoid presences," he continued. "After I came out of my coma, I had this image of myself as these little hunks of protoplasm that were stuck together kind of like stamps with perforations between them that you could snap off. They were run through with neoprene tubing, and there were these insects that looked like cockroaches which were like message-units that were kind of like my bloodstream. That was my image of my physical self and this particular feeling lasted a long time. It was really strange.”
According to Garcia, the vegetable kingdom "was communicating in comic dialect in iambic pentameter. So there were these Italian accents and German accents and it got to be this vast gabbling. Potatoes and radishes and trees were all speaking to me. It was really strange. It finally just reached hysteria and that’s when I passed out and woke up in the hospital."
“I was pretty scrambled," Garcia said. "It was as though in my whole library of information, all the books had fallen off the shelves and all the pages had fallen out of the books. I would speak to people and know what I meant to say, but different words would come out. So I had to learn everything over again. I had to learn how to walk, play the guitar, everything."
One of the people who helped Garcia to get back on his feet again, literally, was friend and keyboardist Merl Saunders, his bandmate in Legion of Mary.
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Garcia's guitar skills also came back "very slowly."
Within months, Garcia was back on the road with the Grateful Dead...and the long, strange trip continued.
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