Posted on 11/10/2012 4:51:46 PM PST by Kartographer
The tubes down the throat and being tied down didn't help my attitude. I may have been a difficult patient.
I was alone in the mountains. I did have a radio and called out on it, when I wasn't passed out. 4 hours off to get off the mountain, weather got worse, no airlift, 2 hours to the nearest town with a hospital. Doc did a endoscope thing near my belly button and said "boy, you are f---ed" I'll never forget that part.
Mask over the face, they transported me to ABQ hospital on a jet (I was semi-lucid for that), and there I stayed, until I broke out, against advice, and came back to where there is air to breath.
The whole thing sucked hard. I would rather never, ever do that again.
Other than that, I loved the mountains. ;)
/johnny
Resource bump
burst appendix???
I have no idea whether they left my appendix in while they were rummage through the fiddly bits. Docs were vague with the details afterwards. Except that I looked like a gut-shot deer on the inside.
Brother said the first time he saw me, they still had me open with a sump pump (his words, he's a plumber, lol) running to clear out the bleeding.
I disrecommend the experience.
/johnny
At least you'll know when you get it right. ;)
/johnny
You were one lucky guy.
I expect David Gingery’s books might prove useful:
http://gingerybookstore.com/
I did the hard part... Me and Jesus came to an undertanding as the full moon looked down and the snow was falling, and the hard part was mostly over. Lucidity was more and more infrequent...
Someday, I'll get to do the whole 'so this is death' thing over again.
At the end of one of the Ice Age cartoons, the squirrel goes..... almost... to heaven, only to get yanked back with Sid giving him CPR.
That was pretty much my attitude when I found out I was still alive. ;)
I suppose I still have chores to complete here. I have no clue what they are. It did change my outlook and approach to life.
/johnny
LOL!
Must have a $5.00 magnesium firestarter. It can get soaked in freezing stream and light a fire (maybe not in pouring rain).
It has THOUSANDS of lights. We gave one to all on our Christmas list couple years ago.
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