Sebastian Junger

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.

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.