Nick Lavery

And then I was able to secure a tourniquet on top of the gauze and wrench it down tight enough just to create that upward pressure directly into the femoral. And time would tell you that that worked because I didn't get medevaced for almost two hours after I was hit because of the ongoing gunfight. It just took a while. for them to be able to start landing birds.

And then I was able to secure a tourniquet on top of the gauze and wrench it down tight enough just to create that upward pressure directly into the femoral. And time would tell you that that worked because I didn't get medevaced for almost two hours after I was hit because of the ongoing gunfight. It just took a while. for them to be able to start landing birds.

But eventually I would hear from the doctors that treated me years later when I first got to that aid station for initial treatment. And they were like, dude, you nailed your femoral artery. You were like dead on with that thing. So a little bit of luck, a whole lot of phenomenal training from some great teammates and great medics over the years that enabled me to do what I needed to do. Yeah.

But eventually I would hear from the doctors that treated me years later when I first got to that aid station for initial treatment. And they were like, dude, you nailed your femoral artery. You were like dead on with that thing. So a little bit of luck, a whole lot of phenomenal training from some great teammates and great medics over the years that enabled me to do what I needed to do. Yeah.

But eventually I would hear from the doctors that treated me years later when I first got to that aid station for initial treatment. And they were like, dude, you nailed your femoral artery. You were like dead on with that thing. So a little bit of luck, a whole lot of phenomenal training from some great teammates and great medics over the years that enabled me to do what I needed to do. Yeah.

Were you feeling all of that or was it just numb at that point? It definitely wasn't numb. The first time I remember feeling any legitimate pain was during that procedure because I was scraping past shattered femur. My femur had been shattered into 18 pieces. So I was scraping past broken bone. Up until that point, I didn't feel any pain at all. Adrenaline was just dumped into the system.

Were you feeling all of that or was it just numb at that point? It definitely wasn't numb. The first time I remember feeling any legitimate pain was during that procedure because I was scraping past shattered femur. My femur had been shattered into 18 pieces. So I was scraping past broken bone. Up until that point, I didn't feel any pain at all. Adrenaline was just dumped into the system.

Were you feeling all of that or was it just numb at that point? It definitely wasn't numb. The first time I remember feeling any legitimate pain was during that procedure because I was scraping past shattered femur. My femur had been shattered into 18 pieces. So I was scraping past broken bone. Up until that point, I didn't feel any pain at all. Adrenaline was just dumped into the system.

When I was doing that was when the pain kicked in for the first time. And when I say it kicked in, I mean, it came in like a freight train. It felt like I was actually trying to like explode. I could feel almost my eyeballs like popping out of my head, that amount of like heat and pressure.

When I was doing that was when the pain kicked in for the first time. And when I say it kicked in, I mean, it came in like a freight train. It felt like I was actually trying to like explode. I could feel almost my eyeballs like popping out of my head, that amount of like heat and pressure.

When I was doing that was when the pain kicked in for the first time. And when I say it kicked in, I mean, it came in like a freight train. It felt like I was actually trying to like explode. I could feel almost my eyeballs like popping out of my head, that amount of like heat and pressure.

internal trying to explode out my body was so powerful that it almost just like put me out cold like i could see my peripheral vision just like went completely away and it was like i was hanging on through this like soda straw looking into you know the sky or the abyss i was

internal trying to explode out my body was so powerful that it almost just like put me out cold like i could see my peripheral vision just like went completely away and it was like i was hanging on through this like soda straw looking into you know the sky or the abyss i was

internal trying to explode out my body was so powerful that it almost just like put me out cold like i could see my peripheral vision just like went completely away and it was like i was hanging on through this like soda straw looking into you know the sky or the abyss i was

barely hanging on consciously and just telling myself man like you cannot pass out right now you gotta you gotta get this in there and you gotta get this right on the mock so just stay in the game stay awake stay awake and just battle through that discomfort and i was able to do that just long enough to

barely hanging on consciously and just telling myself man like you cannot pass out right now you gotta you gotta get this in there and you gotta get this right on the mock so just stay in the game stay awake stay awake and just battle through that discomfort and i was able to do that just long enough to

barely hanging on consciously and just telling myself man like you cannot pass out right now you gotta you gotta get this in there and you gotta get this right on the mock so just stay in the game stay awake stay awake and just battle through that discomfort and i was able to do that just long enough to

secure a turn to get back on top of that and then i did go unconscious when did you wake up after that the first time i woke up after that was about a minute or so later um and i looked at my the work i had done and i had no idea if it really did anything but i was out of options so now the question is what do you want to do with the rest of your life um which is a question i think that we should all ask ourselves from time to time

secure a turn to get back on top of that and then i did go unconscious when did you wake up after that the first time i woke up after that was about a minute or so later um and i looked at my the work i had done and i had no idea if it really did anything but i was out of options so now the question is what do you want to do with the rest of your life um which is a question i think that we should all ask ourselves from time to time

secure a turn to get back on top of that and then i did go unconscious when did you wake up after that the first time i woke up after that was about a minute or so later um and i looked at my the work i had done and i had no idea if it really did anything but i was out of options so now the question is what do you want to do with the rest of your life um which is a question i think that we should all ask ourselves from time to time