Sebastian Junger
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And it's so remote, there's no cell phone service.
The phone lines are old, and they short out when it rains.
And my wife and I had a little bit of babysitting at the time, a three-year-old and a six-month-old.
We had a little bit of babysitting for...
From the teenage girls that lived down the road that we knew the family.
And so they came over to give us a few hours.
And my wife and I went out to this cabin that's even deeper in the woods.
And, you know, paradise basically, right?
And so we're out there.
And in mid-sentence, I felt this sort of pain in my abdomen.
Like, ooh, what was that?
Like not kidney stone pain, but worse than indigestion.
And so I sort of twisted and turned to see if I could work it out, you know, and then nothing helped.
And then I, and then I finally stood up.
I mean, I can walk it out.
And as soon as I stood up, the floor just reeled away from me and I almost fell over.
What was happening is my blood pressure was just like tanking because I was losing all my blood into my abdomen and my body hadn't compensated yet.
So I was just like,