I had a last ditch effort to save my life by having lung surgery while in Navy. Family called in as surgery has only a 50/50 chance. While I was being transferred onto gurney one of the corpsman stuffs a pillow over my face thinking it would be funny. He thought I was high on Demerol which was common to give before surgery to help keep patients calm. I can't take it as it also suppresses breathing and I'm barely breathing as it was.

Go in to surgery and Anesthesiologist told to keep it as shallow as possible because they want to try and get it done quickly and bring me out of it fast so that I have a chance to survive. I wake up during the surgery, eyelids taped shut but I hear the Head Doctor screaming to, "Put him back, put him back." Meaning put me back to sleep.

I obviously survived the surgery but it's been 42 years ago and I still dream of that day from time to time.

I chose the above but second worst was taking my son to Doctors office. Doctor sees us as we're heading into exam room. Stops us and strips my 2 year old son in hallway. Grabs his clothes and hands them back to me and tells me to head to the Pediatric intensive care unit at local hospital. She will have a Pediatric Cardiologist waiting for us. "Hurry, you don't have time to wait for an ambulance." Traveling 90 miles an hour on side streets with tears of fear for my son running down my face. Pull to stop in front of Emergency room door and get out grabbing him up as I exit the car. Guard starts yelling to move the car and I just tossed him the keys and told him to move it if he needed to as I wasn't stopping. Ran the rest of the way. They saved his life also but within minutes of death. Still he lost patches of skin and the rest of his skin peeled like a very bad sunburn. Scalded Skin Syndrome, a bacterial infection that quickly destroys the skin over the entire body. Cardiologist because Doctor initially thought it was Kawasaki's Syndrome which can cause arteries in the heart to rupture, 75% mortality rate. Still can't talk about this incident without it bringing tears to my eyes it was scary.