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Originally Posted by Manowar
That is a SERIOUS amount of blood, your lucky to have survived that kind of thing... especially when drunk.
God must be smiling on you
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They said I lost over 3 pints, but I am not sure how they came to that conclusion.
I do know when I got to the ER, the trauma surgeon wouldn't transfuse me because I was losing it so fast. They felt until they had the artery repaired (it retracted up in to my arm, they had to dig between my skin and bicep to find it and clamp it) I would just bleed it back out.
The other factor is my heart rate never dropped below 152 for over 2 hours. I have really high blood pressure anyway, that didn't help. They told me unless I dropped below 120, I was going to surgery. Believe me, that calmed my ass way down, I wasn't ready for surgery!
Instead they pumped 5 bags of various other fluids through me to keep me going. I never actually passed out. At some point, laying in that bed, I looked at him and just told him I trusted him, I knew where I was and was aware of what was going on, and just please fix me.
