Sebastian Junger

It's weak and it starts to sort of give way and it'll bubble outwards.

And as that bubble grows bigger – and this takes decades.

It's a very slow process, right?

Basically, I have a ligament in the wrong place and that set in motion a sort of vascular problem that resulted in an aneurysm and they don't hurt.

There's no way to diagnose – I mean unless you scan someone's abdomen, I've always been super healthy.

And so throughout my life, I just never had any reason for an abdominal scan, right?

I'm a fit, healthy male, right?

Fit, healthy person.

And so I just never needed that look inside me.

So no one saw the aneurysm growing, right?

And so at some point, the artery wall gets stretched so far that it will rupture.

It'll just burst.

And now you have an arterial bleed, right?

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.