Peter Attia· MD
the act of pulling that out means you now have to breathe on your own something you have not been doing for the previous week that alone could have killed you yeah right you then pulled out a bunch of central lines which if not compressed so central lines are very very long intravenous lines that go into the main veins inside your body veins that most people don't even realize they have called the vena cava subclavian vein etc to pull those out without the appropriate protocol of compression could also lead to internal hemorrhage and all sorts of crazy things you're dodging death you're three for three on this yeah yes in retrospect i smile almost with pride because it feels good it sounds so daring obviously time i had no freaking idea what i but then the thing that finally gets you is a catheter about the size of an hb pencil that is in your urethra up to your bladder which stays in place with a balloon that's dilated to the size of a very large gumball and said gumball prevents the catheter from ever coming out and before we take these catheters out of the urethra which is by itself unbearable i myself have had one we have to deflate the ball because trying to pull a gumball sized device out of the urethra would be tantamount to torture but of course you just went ahead and through the force of walking towards the door basically removed your own foley catheter minus the balloon removal or yeah yeah you're still alive but all of a sudden that dream not happy yeah it is amazing that you're right that you must have done this all very quickly to make it happen so now you're sort of having that moment of maybe that wasn't a dream i will never forget this it was a clarity that world all the haze cleared up instantly when i felt that fully dislodged from the bladder but incidentally it didn't come all the way out so it's somewhere halfway which is even worse yeah it was just terrifying