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All right, folks, today we are talking to Martin.

Now, look, I love a good horror movie.

And Martin's life is a real world version of just that. At 16,

there was this little ticking time bomb in his head called an AVM, and it exploded out of nowhere,

which basically left him on the ground screaming. He woke up in a coma that lasted a month. And in said

coma, he was basically tripping balls to a little Wayne soundtrack, which was provided by the

ICU staff. But then the nightmare didn't stop there. After a grueling recovery, it happened again.

And thanks to a surgery that we'll say went sideways and a nasty case of meningitis, he ended up with something called

sunken bone flap syndrome, which as you'll hear is exactly as terrifying as it sounds.

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