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Here it is, a breakdown of what led to my esophagus "exploding", how I was treated, how life-threatening it was, and how I made a full recovery from it.

0:00 - Introducing the Introduction
0:27 - Bad Omens
1:22 - The "Explosion"
4:00 - Finding Help, Diagnosis, and Hospital Admission
7:51 - Why I Say "Exploding" Esophagus
8:51 - What's Surgery Like?
9:52 - Surgery #1: EGD, VAC, and Nose Tubes
11:40 - Ominous X-Rays and Visitation
12:58 - April 1st Stops for No One
13:50 - Breathing Difficulty: Hard
14:56 - "Life-Threatening"
15:53 - Potential Last Words...
16:44 - Bad Music Requests
18:34 - Surgery #2: Carved Like a Turkey on Thanksgiving
20:51 - A Series of Tubes
21:51 - A Fever for Fevers
22:16 - Painkiller Buffet
24:12 - Big Pain = Big Feet
24:25 - Taking a Stand... Carefully
26:40 - Night Nurse Dave and Mike Tyson
27:42 - Visits, Gifts, and Surprise Balloons
30:00 - Rest? Impossible.
31:58 - Nurses Say the Darndest Things (for Patient Safety)
33:11 - Baby = YouTube Poop
34:04 - I Have Good Friends
34:41 - Insurance vs. Bankruptcy
35:39 - Even More Pain(killers)
36:13 - No Food. Only Sponge.
36:34 - The "Weird Hurt"
37:37 - Rehab and Pushing the Limits
40:13 - Bob's Burgers...
40:28 - Pain from 1 to 10
41:10 - X-Rays and Bad Drinks
41:49 - Food?! Sort of?!
42:23 - Chest Tube Eviction
42:58 - Teasing Juice and Jell-O
43:19 - "I'm Marrying the Right Person"
43:55 - ... Home?
44:39 - Home Improvement
47:05 - Even Sleeping Is Hard
47:57 - What I Couldn't Do (Almost Everything)
49:07 - What I Could Do
50:12 - Touching Grass
50:44 - Home Nurses and Learning Curves
51:36 - Cherry Coke Is King
52:36 - Other Chest Tube Evict-BLURGH
53:13 - Surgery #3: Peak Rage
54:15 - Home Again, with Lotsa Spaghetti
54:55 - My Strength Grows
55:18 - The Non-Emergency and the Painful Painkiller
56:47 - Cancelling Everything, But Getting Better
58:46 - The Balloons of Fate
59:16 - When I Found Out
1:00:38 - Cirque du Esophagram
1:02:22 - Saran Wrap and the Most Dangerous Shower
1:05:00 - The Sanity Diet
1:05:42 - Surgery #4: Tubeless
1:06:15 - My First Real Meal Back
1:06:48 - Zoanthrope Blood and the Medical Surplus
1:08:45 - The Restaurant List and Not Being 100%
1:10:21 - Dropkicking the Feeding Tube