Raw Truths From The Brink Of Death - Ben Askren - #1116

Welcome back to life, dude. Well, I've been I've been living again for quite a while now. Um, June 28th was actually the day I got the transplant last year, so coming up on a year for that. Uh, I think I believe I woke up on July 2nd or somewhere around there or, you know, like came to in my own mind. Um, so yeah, it's the it's their process that I'm here, I'm getting better, uh, and life's pretty good.

So one year ago from now you were really in the shit? Well, I just made a post yesterday because on June 6th, which was two days ago, Saturday, I got inducted into the National Wrestling Hall of Fame. And when I went home or when we got to the hotel with my wife, I said, Did I get airlifted June 6th last year? So last year on June 6th, I was in Vegas and I went to first hop the first hospital, second hospital, and then we had some friends that came out that were one was a doctor, one was a nurse, and I said, You ain't got he's not gonna make it to this hospital.

We need to get him back to Milwaukee because they have a good uh it's called CVI to uh cardiovascular intensive care unit. and they they got me a flight, they put me on a plane, uh, took me all the way back and I said to my wife, Well, why was that such a bad day? Because I don't remember I was sleeping. And she said, to transport me, they had to fully paralyze my body. Um and then when I got back to Milwaukee, they put me on ECMO.

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