![]() ![]() Junger got that transfusion, while Hetherington did not. The two men faced very different medical scenarios, but both required blood transfusions in order to survive. Junger, an author and journalist, sees parallels between his own medical trauma and the death of his friend, photojournalist Tim Hetherington, who bled out from a shrapnel wound while chronicling the Libyan civil war. ![]() It was so dire, he needed a transfusion of about 10 pints of blood right into his jugular. By the time paramedics arrived, Junger felt better and only reluctantly boarded the ambulance at his wife’s insistence.Īt the hospital, doctors realized Junger’s pancreatic artery had ruptured. Junger was walking with his wife in the woods near his home in Massachusetts when he suddenly felt so ill he could barely move. ![]() Sebastian Junger is used to dodging bullets in war zones, so he didn’t expect to almost die in his own driveway. ![]()
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