Sebastian Junger

And I'm bleeding.

I'm losing a pint of blood every 10 or 15 minutes.

My wife didn't know this, and thank God I didn't either, but I was literally a human hourglass.

And she put me in the passenger seat of the car, and I'm lying there.

Now I'm starting to go blind, which is one of the things that happens when you lose too much blood is you go blind.

She ran into the house.

The sort of electric white just took over the world.

And that's all I could see.

If you bleed out, that's the last thing you'll see.

And then darkness, which is what I finally got to, was the darkness.

So she ran into the house, told the girls, the teenage girls.

One of them ran out.

The phone line didn't work.

But the girl, one of them was able to get one bar of signal.

Like in one spot on the driveway, like one bar.

And she called the ambulance.

And the ambulance guys came.

And you go into something called compensatory shock if you're bleeding out.

And the body senses in its miraculous way, it senses that, you know, there's a five alarm fire going on here and we got to tighten our game, right?

So it literally shuts down vascular like blood flow to parts of the body you don't need, like your legs and your arms, your skin.