Ben Askren

What am I doing?

And they told me I had a double lung transplant and you know, again, I couldn't talk and it was like, okay, why do I have a double lung transplant?

I have, I don't know.

I have no idea what, how that would happen.

I'm totally healthy.

I've never smoked.

I've never done anything.

Um,

And then eventually my wife came in the morning, whatever that, you know, the next morning or whatever.

And she had documented everything.

So it was like a day by day journal of, you know, June 2nd, this happened, June 4th, this happened.

And I had to read through it.

And I was like, oh my God,

What?

Like, how did this ever happen?

And yes, that was kind of my recollection of waking up and kind of figuring out what was going on.

Um, well, so I had a staph infection on my elbow.

Um, I don't know if you've ever got one or not, but you know, sometimes like I, in all my life, I've only had to get on an, uh, antibiotic a singular time.

Um, you know, you get a cut, you get a little infected, you put some antibacterial on there, you wash, you shower, you clean it up and it goes away.

And that was what happened to me.