In this personal video, the speaker recounts an accidental head injury that occurred while staying in northern Michigan. While cleaning, he walked into a sharp wooden frame, sustaining a gash on his head. He and his companion, Hollister, applied pressure and drove 30 minutes to the emergency room. The medical staff stopped the bleeding, considered staples, but ultimately used dissolvable glue to close the wound, allowing a quick return home after about two hours. Throughout the incident, the speaker remained calm and neutral, expressing deep gratitude toward Hollister, a Christian Science practitioner friend, and the hospital staff—including a doctor who attended the same high school as him. He frames the experience as a "moment of yes," emphasizing the value of staying neutral and seeking the positive in unexpected situations. The video ends with a reminder to adopt this mindset in daily life.
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Good day, everyone. Here's your Moment of Yes for, uh, what are we, Thursday, September 12th? Um, still up in northern Michigan for a few more days. Um, had an unexpected trip to the ER yesterday. Um, uh, doing some rearranging and cleaning in the house up here and walked into the drop-down part of the roof where the fridge is. Um, The, uh, actually not the corner, but the, just the, the corner of the, um, of the wood frame, which in retrospect, super sharp. Um, and it, uh, uh, at the top of my head, I don't know if you can see kind of maybe right in there. Uh, so a nice gash. Um, I didn't want Hollister to have to play, um, ER nurse. And so we, uh, you know, got applied pressure and, and, uh, You know, 30-minute drive to the ER. And, uh, um, they— the bleeding had stopped. They took a look at it. They're like, yeah, that's, that's, that's good. Um, let's put a few staples in there. Um, and so it went from, let's put a few staples in there. I'm like, hey, like, is there another alternative? And like, so that I don't have to go back to the hospital. And they're like, well, we could do dissolvable stitches. I'm like, yeah, let's do that. And then, you know, dissolvable stitches, he couldn't find any. He's like, let's just glue it. Let's just glue it. You know, we'll put some dissolvable glue in there and, you know, be smart for a few days and let it heal. So that's where, that's where we were. All of that to say, the entire experience from, from collision to being back home was about 2 hours. And I'm just super grateful, super grateful to be okay. Super grateful for Hollister remaining calm. Grateful for myself for remaining calm. Don't really love blood, especially my own, but stayed calm and neutral through that whole experience. Actually, I'm just super grateful for, you know, my friend who's a Christian Science practitioner who I reached out to, and she's super helpful. And the doctors and the nurses at the facility At the hospital were super just awesome. Come to find out, I went to the same high school as the doctor, and I'm just grateful for just a really harmonious situation all around. And yeah, again, something that I really wasn't aiming to do on a vacation day, but it ended up being super harmonious and, and it gave me a lot to To kind of put my money where my mouth is when it comes to how I respond to unexpected situations. And so grateful for that as well. So, that's your moment of yes for today, right? When you gas your head, stay neutral and look for the good that's happening all around you. That's your moment of yes. Have an awesome day, everybody.
