Sebastian Junger

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?

But he was a genius, right?

So...

The other doctor said, I like the way you think.

And I watched them put a catheter into my left wrist.

I no longer have a pulse in that wrist because it messes up the artery.

And they did it.

They got the thing to the place.