sad music may be effective for easing sadness in a deeply sad mood.

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So, when Dr. Kohler thought my aorta had ruptured, he knew he was dealing with someone who had a fifty-fifty chance of dying no matter what they did. It had taken me an hour and a half to get to the hospital, my blood pressure was ten points below the minimum for consciousness, and my hemoglobin levels were in the toilet. Hemoglobin carries oxygen from the lungs to the rest of the body; without enough of it, you lose consciousness and die. Periods of unconsciousness are known to be predictive of death with Triple As, and I’d been drifting in and out of reality almost from the beginning.

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