Remember the time you almost/could've died?

I almost died when I went to Las Vegas for New Years in 2003.

When we went down on The Strip for the countdown, my parents, my uncle and I were all in the gigantic crowd. After New Years hit, we were kind of stuck in a mob situation and thus had to go wherever the mob pushed us...we ended up down at the complete opposite end of the Strip, where it took until 4am to get back to our car. On foot. I apparently had some little callus or something on the sole of my foot, which got irritated with all the walking and ended up infected. The infection had gotten quite bad by the time we returned to our hotel room, so my parents took me to the emergency.

At emergency, I removed the sock from my foot (I couldn't walk with shoes by that point), and there was a red line going up my leg. The doctor said it was blood poisoning, and I needed emergency I.V. antibiotics for 8 hours.

Long story short, I didn't want to be hospitalized, so my parents just had to take me back every two hours to the emergency center, where the poked me and put the crap in. I had four holes in my arms and was a sobbing mess by the end of it, and they had to remove the whatever it was on the bottom of my foot.

It was nasty. Horrible experience. And if I had let the blood poisoning spread, I could have died within a few days.

Jam it back in, in the dark.