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Trans-esophageal echo Cardiograph. FIRST TIME. “He’s waking up, hold him, hold him..” I pulled the instrument out of my throat on instinct, blood everywhere.

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“We had lost the needle inside this guy’s jugular.”

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Marc’s car was found in a lot filled with wrecks right on East 56th Street and Foster Avenue – the very place Marc told me was a haven for stolen cars when we passed it last night.

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It is standing on the edge of the abyss and saying, I choose to stay. Today, I will stay.

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Those words. Those words. No one wants to hear them.

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If the overwhelming support itself was surprising, a donation from a very special person might have been even more so.

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Did you know that you go blind for an average of 40 minutes a day?

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“What happened?” I asked. It was the first groggy sentence I could manage.

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I landed in the hospital for nearly a month. And it’s a strange, strange universe with its own rules.

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I never thought I’d be so mesmerized by surgeons pulling out fat from a clogged artery until now.