Sebastian Junger

This isn't working.

And the other doctor nodded and he was like, yeah, we tried.

And it was the first moment where I realized, oh, my God, I didn't realize.

We're playing for keeps right now.

This might not turn out well.

I might not be going home.

I couldn't believe what I'd seen.

And then the first doctor, who's this brilliant interventional radiologist named Dr. Phil Dombrowski, he saved my life.

You have in your mind a special relationship with someone, a man or anyone who has saved your life.

It's a very particular relationship.

And I've never been in that position before.

And so Dombrowski said, we can try one last thing.

Let's try going through his left wrist.

And so because of your vasculature, like the left wrist allows a different point of attack.

You come down from above instead of coming up from below, and you don't have to go through all those twists and turns.

And he had to—

get through a problematic spot in my celiac artery that was impeded by the ligament that's in the wrong place.

Well, he was a lot of problems, right?

And you had to be like a super high-level IR guy to even think of this, much less do it.

Like I was told a very, very few interventional radiologists would even think of doing this, right?