Self injury

[Dotard]

Mountain biking with a friend. Fell off the mountain.

Broke three ribs, snapped the collar bone (left one) and splattered my spleen.

We was deep in the woods so it took awhile before the EMS could carry me down the path, out of the woods to a four-wheel drive rescue vehicle, load me into an ambulance and cart me to the hospital.

Rolled me into the operating room, knocked me out and I woke up three and a half weeks later in the intensive care.

Seems I lost chingos of blood and was hovering next to death. Spent another 2 days conscience in the IC unit, transfered to a regular hospital room and spent the next four weeks in there.

I have a nice zipper scar from mid/lower chest damn near down to my junk.

Been spleen free for about 10 years now.

I like to tell folks I've travelled into the future. I 'went under', and what seemed to me like merely falling asleep and waking up (seemingly instantanously), I woke up almost four weeks later! I travelled damn near 30 days into the future! \o/

And after all this it gave me the idea for a time travelling machine. It only works one way (into the future) and the technology to implement it does not exist yet, but it would work!
Then I realized how this same basic idea could be be implemented in order to explore the farthest reaches of the galaxy.

One day I'll fill you all in on it. Not now 'cause I gotta go take a dump.