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It's nuts when you think what you put your body and mind through in your life yet you survive it all

The Grim Reaper gets us all in the end though. Time is on his side.

I thought I saw him once

According to the old definition of death, I died once but I didn't see anything. No reaper, no pearly gates, no out-of-body experience, no meeting with Satan, nothing. Unless they wiped my memory before I resurrected myself.

Oh yeah and when did that happen then

I was walking to Walmart in October last year. All I remember is getting up to the door and this bloke saying "you can't come in here in that state." Apparently I'd had a heart attack but the blow from the fall had re-started it, and I'd just got up and carried on without realising what had happened. I vaguely knew my face had a bit of blood on it from the fall, but thought it was just a scratch. Wasn't really thinking straight. Million to one chance that I survived. Anyway they helicoptered me to Little Rock and cleared out a couple of arteries, and implanted a pacemaker and defibrillator just in case it happens again, and gave me a box of tablets, and I've been fine ever since. I've always said that if I'm going to die I'd rather not know anything about it, so if it does happen again then it's better than rotting away in pain for months. But somehow I don't think it will now they've cleaned up my arteries. The pacemaker sends data to the hospital to tell them of any weird heart rhythms, and so far it's sent them nothing but good news.

Woah I didn't realise that heart attacks could be restarted

It's far from 100% reliable, especially when it's a random blow from a fall, but yes it can work or I wouldn't be here now. Sometimes people in movies and TV shows, when somebody's had a heart attack then somebody else punches away at their chest to shock the heart into restarting.

^ I suppose that's the exact way a defibrillator works, i'm glad you pulled through

The little blue light on my Bluetooth headphones flashes every few seconds and it's annoyingly distracting when I'm watching videos on my phone in bed in the dark. It illuminates my whole pillow and draws my attention away from what I'm doing on my phone.

Moon dust is really cool