Sebastian Junger

So you know what that – if someone shoots you in the femoral or stabs you in the abdomen and you have an arterial bleed, your life is measured in minutes or whatever or hours.

And if someone does you the favor of stabbing you in the abdomen –

And severing your pancreatic artery, which is the artery that ruptured on me.

Now, it's a little artery, the thickness of a number two pencil.

It's not a big deal.

But it's arterial blood, right?

I mean, don't stop that shit.

You're going to die, right?

And so if someone just like stabbed you in the abdomen –

You rush to the hospital, there's no problem.

If you're still alive, they'll transfuse you.

The doctors know exactly where to sort of put their finger to plug the leak.

There's no problem.

The problem with an internal hemorrhage, an abdominal hemorrhage, is the doctors have no idea where it is.

And your abdomen is basically a big bowl of spaghetti, right?

And it's filling up with blood.

Yeah, because if you're stabbed, the blood's going out of your body onto the kitchen floor.

With an internal hemorrhage, it all stays in your abdomen.

So it happened.

It was during COVID, and we were in a remote area, an old house that we own at the end of a dead-end dirt road in Massachusetts.