In 1995 a stitch broke after an operation, and I almost bled to death.

I went back to the hospital for emergency repair.

They wanted to give me a spinal to fix it because I had already eaten breakfast.

But they could not get a needle between my vertebrae with without me straightening up my back.

So they put me under and fixed it.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps