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I had gone blind in my right eye. There was one person standing before me at the reception in the emergency room arguing with the receptionist because he did not have health insurance (before the ACA). I remember thinking about a post card I saw in Powell's Books on Hawthorn St. in Portland Oregon out of the corner of my eye years earlier that said (paraphrasing) "Be thankful for our enemies, for they give us the opportunity to learn patience and understanding -- The Buddha." (The Buddha never said that.) While waiting I thought this was a good opportunity for me to learn patience and remain calm letting the man finish. That was a good thought because I was suffering from a stroke and if I had not been calm likely I wouldn't have survived. Turns out, every prior moment I had learned patience and understanding was for that one single moment.

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invalidlogin a day ago | parent [-]

How do you believe calmness helped you? I am interested in that.

	▲	dataviz1000 6 hours ago \| parent [-]
		I had a dissection of the right carotid artery also with a small aneurysm at the same location as the tear went through the artery wall. There was a massive blood clot dangling in my neck and I went blind because a little piece of this huge blood clot broke off and went into my retina which cut off oxygen to the nerves in my retina, fortunately, because if it had gone further into my brain I likely would have been paralyzed or died. There is about one hour window to clear the blood clot in the eye before permanent damage to the oxygen starved nerves starts. That morning I had been suffering from ischemic strokes. By being calm I decreased my blood pressure so small pieces of the blood clot in my neck stopped breaking off going into my brain and the whole huge blood clot didn't break off which would have been lethal.