Being in top physical shape as a long-distance runner may prevent cardiac arrest and kidney failure during severe hemorrhage.

“I was on the fluoroscope for so long that I got radiation burns on my back two weeks later the square red patch appeared on my back because I had so much radiation and I remember at one point the doctors looking at each other like I know this kind of thing is very hard to fix and it was in the middle of the night in a small hospital on cape cod hyannis hospital and I remember the doctors looking at each other and literally like what do we do like we can't find it like what do we do and I remember thinking oh guys tell me you don't tell me I just didn't see that exchange and uh but they they were heroes man they pulled it off they finally found it and they they embolized it with catheter embolism and they gave me 10 units of blood i wound up getting 10 units of blood and they saved my life”