 I was working from home, sitting on the couch with my computer, and all of a sudden I started feeling like some really strange symptoms. My wife's a nurse and so I waited for her to come home. I told her, you know, what the symptoms were, she looked it up on the computer real fast and said, I think we need to go to the emergency room. Like every guy does, I was a little resistant because everything had calmed down and I somewhat felt normal again and, you know, nobody wants to spend five hours in the emergency room. I spent a lot longer than that, but anyway, so luckily, you know, I listened and we went and the next thing I know, you know, I was in a helicopter on my way to shock trauma. With the dissection of my aorta, which come to find out is a very rare and very serious event. He had a dissection, we call it a Taipei, it included the aorta ascending and descending all the way to the abdominal part and included the kidney arteries. The pilots in the helicopter were great and they were telling me like, this is what's going to happen. You're going to go into this huge operating room, it's going to look like a TV show, which it did. I mean, there were just people everywhere. We took miles to the operating room as soon as he arrived here. We replaced all of these parts of the aorta that was dissected. We collaborate here in our center at the University of Maryland with our vascular surgery and every case patients with dissection, it's a teamwork. Doctors were talking to me, nurses were talking to me, the next thing you know, I'm out and they're operating on me 15 hours. Basically, a dissection is a tear from what I understand and the aorta has like the top part and the lower part. The top part is called section A and the lower part is called section B. I had a tear in both, lucky me, but the A is like the life-threatening part. Apparently, you know, hours or within a day or so, it would have gotten to the point where the aorta would have burst and ruptured and at that point you literally have like three minutes to get help and that obviously that's not going to happen. I feel really good. I've been walking a lot, like you know, they're encouraging physical activity. Dr. Gureshi's team and the team at University of Maryland, all the nurses, I mean, they were incredible. It's really strange. So it's almost like, you know, stubbing your toe. I mean, you just forget about it. I mean, I haven't forgotten about it because every day I see those scars, but it's every day it's just getting further and further into history.