[rtmike]

I survived a buddy being knifed in the throat killing him instantly. I was behind him in back seat trying to get out to fight. It was him or me.
I watched a airport parking structure being erected with my crane fall at the foot of my crane. Watched 2 iron workers running in mid air. When it came down I seen the one iron worker and thought there was someone laying with him but it was it was lowere body beside him not his buddy. Bad scene.
We were dismantling a crane and a helper got under the boom and started beating pins out. The pins were hitting hard could hear their sdifferent sound. I turned around and he was UNDER the boom. You never do that. Well, pin came out and boom sections dropped pinning him on the ground. You could take a pair of coveralls and throw them on the ground and that’s what Jeff looked like. He lived but I was forever scarred.
I started drinking heavy-Er.

After being paralyzed, I had an autonomic dysreflexia episode. I was in a coma for 5 days. I woke to my family being in town, lol.

A few skin infections have hospitalized me.



BUT NOTHING compares to the sepsis episode I had. I had just had an epidural injection. Infection latched onto my heart valves, lung, and epidural spacing.
Most pain in my life.
I was so loopy on pain meds, lol. They finally operated on me. They had to remove yet another piece of my spine and clean out the epidural spacing in a sense re-paralyzing me. I lost all my left side function that had me standing, etc.
Also had to dismantle my chair for car trips for over a year before I was able to throw chair in back again and shuffle/walk holding on to top of car to drivers seat.


So, I think I’m qualified to say, “I know what you’re going through. PM some time if you’d like.”
We’re chief fans, so we’re used to pain, lol.