That was really good @kafkanarchy84. I always liked Sam Kinison! I knew that he died in an accident, but not the circumstances and definitely his last words.
I don't talk about this on Steemit, but I nearly died almost exactly 4 years ago today. The widowmaker heart attack at 44. Walked myself into the ambulance after snow shoveling BP was 35 over palp. My wife's a nurse, so she understood the zero. Got to the hospital fast, by a crazy fucking ambulance driver that I would love to meet btw..had that truck on two wheels in a foot of unplowed snow! Pants off out in the snowy parking lot, slid myself onto the table while they debated the best way...BP now 25/0. I had a stopwatch in my head, literally. I knew to the second when we had waited too long. No meds, just start cutting. Wife didn't believe me, had to pull my charts...then she was like damn, ur right.
Sounds crazy, but I was at total peace. I had zero doubt that things were going to happen in time and everything would be ok. Zero. I didn't see anything, but definitley felt a...I guess a comforting feeling. A presence.
Turns out I had an 8 inch blood clot. Just stopped everything. The guy that invented my procedure was subbing at out little local hospital, because the normal surgeon couldn't get a babysitter with the snow. She did his lecture, he covered her shift. There was literally no one in the entire world who was more qualified than the guy that lived a stone's throw from my house and was Waiting on me to arrive to our small hospital that morning.
He came in the next morning and said "Dayuuuum...you look Great! I seen dead people come in looking better than you did yesterday!"
Featured me on a radio interview that day, on the dangers of shoveling snow in cold weather.
The @jbcoin backstory. Long One!
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Daaammnn! That’s nuts!!!!
Amazing story man, and scary just reading it. Really cool you were at peace throughout. So you basically knew it was happening from the get-go?
And the surgeon being right there... That’s a real life miracle man.
Glad you’re still here kickin’ ass, JB!
Thanks Boss, glad to be able to clock in every morning 😁
Yeah, I was as certain that everything was going to be done in time, as I was of how much time there was left to do it in. Stopwatch, thats exactly what it was. I remember laying there on the table, in the moment, and being surprised at how calm I felt. I was cracking jokes to the nurse. She's trying to comfort me and I'm making her break character and smile about the situation.