Sebastian Junger

Just because this chemical process gets initiated and they can't reverse it, right?

And that starts to happen when you've lost two-thirds of your blood, which is right where I was at, right?

Ten minutes later, I'd have been dead.

And so they rushed me into the trauma bay.

And the doctors knew immediately what was going on.

And one doctor had this sort of large-gauge needle, and he started and he asked my permission.

I had no idea I was dying, right?

And he asked my permission to stick it through my neck into my jugular, which didn't look like a lot of fun.

And I was like, really?

Is this totally necessary?

Like, do we really need to do this?

I was like, why?

In case there's an emergency?

And he was like, no, this is the emergency.

Like, I had no idea.

right i'm i'm 10 minutes from dead i have no idea i'm dying zero right thank god because i would have been terrified and i would have been thinking about my family and i would you know i mean you know like yeah you don't want that right and um so he said this is the emergency i was like well if you say so go ahead have at it right so while he's working on prepping my neck um

And it actually didn't hurt at all, right?

So if you ever have to have this done, don't worry about it.

But while I'm lying there and he's sort of working on my neck, getting...

It felt like it took longer than it probably actually did.