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I don’t have rent since I am building my own house.

And I have had a lot of surgeries adding onto multiple medical issues such as sleep disorders. From infancy I was cursed with a “old mans disease” (Chiari Malformation) where thé body and brain aren’t functioning or connecting. @Oven

So I was dying when I was only two months old.

It took 3-4 surgeries to keep me alive.

Damn. RIP. 3-4 tho. Could be worse. At least they were able to do it yknow.

I technically “died” during one surgery as my life on the monitors went dead where they monitor your heart and such.

All I remember from that was all white and the rapid beeping of the systems.

And just waking up with intense, massive pain.

I'm sorry bro.

You know what bothers me about that kind of stuff

incoming bc im buzzed

le "i saw heaven" kinda shit

I nearly died 3 times in my life, I just got out of a direct impact car crash.

even tho the gates of heaven wont open up for a while

A pickup truck smashed right into me head on, the very door I was sitting at.

The vehicle I was in got knocked 100 feet off road into a ditch and I crawled out the drivers end and was by some miracle, 100% unharmed.

Either something is trying really hard to kill you, or something is trying really hard to keep you alive

No bruises beyond a torn shoulder.

I'd go with the second part.

Well it gets worse from here see

It takes more to keep you alive than to kill you.

The only time I almost came close to dying, I got a full body blood infection, took a long time in the hospital to fight it.

I had multiple issues with these surgeries, having to go back to the hospital for treatments and checkups. So 2/3rd of my childhood was doctor visits and examinations/hospitals. So this means no public school.

It was a reason why the court let me out of public school.

The closest I came to dying, I was assaulted pretty bad and half of my skull was crushed in. RIP. I got some great doctors able to stop my brain bleed and reconstruct my skull so it's hardly noticeabe.

GG @Oven, you just advanced to level 2!

nice bro i can train fireball now

Without modern medicine, I would be dead from a massive blood infection.

Tbh tho speaking from experience I’m very fortunate to have lived but I was left in crippling depression for most of my young life.

Unable to feel “normal”, hardly any friends in school if any, and unable to live that childish dream of being in the army to serve my country.

That's sad.

The recruiting sergeant gave me a motivational talk in is office when I was denied enlistment.

How “freedom isn’t free”.

But good news is I’m still eligible for draft.

I completely understand why so many kids used to die, half of my parents kids would have died without modern medicine, my sister had an emergency birth procedure, or she never would have came out alive, and I would have died as a kid of a blood infection.

From my point of view it's completely understandable why infant mortality was so high

Indeed, medicine has advanced dramatically in the previous century alone.

People that should be dead (like myself) are alive by sheer miracle alone of modern medicine.

But I don’t like to talk about my benefits from Uncle Sam, as it hurts my pride to even receive even the most abysmal of checks. Out of principle I’d prefer being tossed into a ditch.

But I tried that and nobody was rooting for it.