Staring Death In The Face…

Rstahmid
3 min readNov 21, 2020

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Photograph by Sandro Porfirio on Unsplash

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When a highly skilled heart surgeon tells you just before a major intervention on your heart that there is one in a thousand chance you will die as a direct cause of the operation, it does not exactly fill one with confidence. When he adds the caveat that the odds of you dying are exactly the same if he does NOT do the operation, it’s what we call a case of shit or bust.

Then when he’s finished telling you that you might not make it out of this alive, he asks you to sign a piece of paper stating that you accept all risks. In other words, be it on your own head if it all goes base over apex. For a brief moment I was tempted to sign Mickey Mouse on the dotted line.

In the end I dodged a bullet, and then some. A previous mis-leading resonance echograph had indicated some pretty major arterial concerns which might have needed anything from the insertion of some stents to a full on quadruple by-pass or even a heart transplant. As one might imagine, I was not looking forward to any of it.

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