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> 気づけば、その繰り返しで数ヶ月が経とうとしていた。

The context of 繰り返し stands for "I had to go to the hospital many times
(入院、退院、通院)". First, I don't know if （時間が）経つ means "to pass time (doing
something)" or "the time passes". It looks like to be the latter based on the
sentence above and other example sentences I read on the internet. But, the
～ようとする form means "to attempt doing something", and that contradicts the verb
itself of being intransitive ( _I'm not sure about it_ ). Further reading on
the internet, I found out that this grammar can also mean "to be about to do
something", even though strangely there wasn't any example sentence, but it
also doesn't seem to fit here. So, does （時間が）経つ mean "to spend time doing
something"? If that's the case, should I say that the sentence means "I was
trying to repeatedly spend time (doing something) for several months"?
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What does 経とうとしていた mean in this sentence?
I think it's being used similarly to [this example Chocolate
linked](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/a/29650/51808)— so sort of in the
"about to be/do" sense, but less a literal expression of time or intent and
more for dramatic emphasis.

So a natural English translation might be: "Before I knew it / By the time I
realized/noticed, I'd [already] been repeating this cycle for several months"
or "it was coming up on several months [of going in/out of the hospital]".

If I'm correct with that (I'm not fluent yet, so I welcome corrections if I'm
not), 経とうとしていた serves to illustrate that despite hospitalization normally
being quite a serious event, it happened so many times that the narrator
became used to the cycle of going in and out over and over, and didn't even
notice how long it'd been.
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