About 50 hours. My wife was pregnant with our daughter and things went south real quick. Ended up in emergency surgery and our daughter spending a week in NICU. My wife is still dealing with issues from the ordeal, but my daughter is 18 months old now and she is just an absolute treasure and sooo smart! We’re so thankful to have her in our lives.
A week.
I was in my teens and had no commitments at the time and just spontaneously decided not to eat or sleep for a few days - which I later decided would be a week. At the time, I had no idea of the world record for this or I probably would have tried for that - although, obviously, I was not supervised or anything.
The afternoons from the second day onwards were the worst - when I felt pretty lousy - but otherwise I was running on serotonin and was pretty much on a natural high for most the duration.
At the end, I cycled 12 miles during which one of my feet cramped and left me jabbing at the pedal as it went past, but I did it ok.
I slept extremely well when I finally did, but I took some while to get back into the whole eating thing again.
There is no way in hell that I could do anything like that now.
72 hours ~ish (I did get maybe a 1.5 hour nap… somewhere in there).
Wife was giving birth, things got complicated, I was so nervous, anxious and excited. The hospital was terribly uncomfortable as we had to be in a special room due to my wife’s situation. Driving home from the hospital was EVERY ounce of pure WILL I’ve had. Those 72 hours I drank so much caffeine… so many pots of terrible coffee… I got home and slept for about 5 hours once the family came over to see the baby.
It was the worst and best time of my life.
4 days awake. Worst tooth infection ever… my head was basically exploding. Swishing cold water would kill the pain for about a minute. In retrospect I should have went to emerge? I’d lay down and start to fall asleep, then BOOM. I was starting to have hallucinations and I think I was seeing “shadow people” out of my peripheral vision. Eventually the antibiotics kicked in and I stayed asleep for 5-6 hours… something woke me up and I bolted awake… I WAS ASLEEP??
I had an endoscopic gallbladder surgery, that was a walk in the park. Tbh I’ve had headaches worse than that lol.
