I Died 3 Times In Surgery - U.S. ARMY Captain Derick Carver | Mike Ritland Podcast Episode 109
Mike Drop
Mike Ritland
4.9 • 6.3K Ratings
🗓️ 28 August 2022
⏱️ 135 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of Mike Drop, U.S. ARMY Captain Derick Carver opens up about the attack on January 19, 2010 and his road to recovery.
Chapters:
00:00 - Intro
1:43 - Lightning Round
8:14 - Morning Routine
10:59 - Weight Lifting Injuries
15:59 - Childhood
20:21 - Chess
23:59 - Joining The Army
34:47 - Ranger School
37:28 - First Deployment
41:10 - Jan 19, 2010
1:12:26 - Dying
1:18:18 - Medications
1:20:23 - Recovery Process
1:25:17 - Pain Management
1:31:38 - Alternative Medicine
1:34:00 - Reflection
1:36:56 - Transitioning To Civilian
1:48:38 - Moving Forward
1:49:33 - Politics
2:00:03 - BRCC
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | I literally died. |
| 0:02.0 | Everything was gray and I felt my body doing summer salts and I did like four of them and I thought to myself, fuck. |
| 0:09.0 | And it's like, you got hit by an ID. |
| 0:12.0 | And it's like, yo, I ID is like, hey asshole, you're 40 feet in the air, they know. And then you land. |
| 0:18.0 | And I remember when I landed, I kind of landed sitting, facing the river with my back on the wall where the blasts come. |
| 0:27.0 | And I looked down and I see my right leg and this is blown open and bleeding but the pants aren't, doesn't show my flesh. |
| 0:37.0 | It just shows it's bleeding. |
| 0:39.0 | Look at my hand. This finger is dangling but it's still attached by the glove. |
| 0:47.0 | And then I look over and I see my elbow and my tendons hanging out here. |
| 0:53.0 | And then I look at my hand and these two fingers are dangling. |
| 0:57.0 | By skin, I look down and my leg is where the end of the table is. |
| 1:03.0 | And I move my right foot and I'm like, okay, that's good news. |
| 1:08.0 | And I look over and I try to move my left and nothing happens. |
| 1:11.0 | I'm like, well that leg's gone and I grab it and I drag it back. |
| 1:14.0 | It's close as I can get it. |
| 1:17.0 | It literally died three times. And I have six murders to search for the first 72 hours. |
| 1:24.0 | It was a process to keep my died. |
| 1:35.0 | Welcome to Mike Drop, the podcast where relevancy is irrelevant and we don't give a shit about your feelings. |
| 1:43.0 | Ladies and gentlemen, as always, it's both an honor and a pleasure to welcome my next guest to the podcast. |
| 1:48.0 | He spent seven and a half years in multiple branches of service but primarily what we're going to cover today is a US Army captain, |
| 1:56.0 | the second of 508, 82nd airborne. |
| 1:59.0 | He's a US and world champion disabled strongman. He's a grad student at University of Texas. |
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