My Interesting Life

I have had an interesting life…

– I have held a 10-year-old child’s beating heart in my hand.

– I have built a robot that could dance and pick up trash off the floor.

– I have jumped out of a third story hotel window into a palm tree.

– I have hiked to the top of volcano.

– I have performed CPR on a woman at the bottom of a waterfall.

– I have delivered a baby on a helicopter.

– I have greeted the victims of Hurricane Katrina with food and medicine.

– I have been escorted out of an Eric Clapton concert by four police officers.

– I have been on the set during the filming of an episode of Adam-12.

– I have cut off a man’s leg.

– I have woken up underneath an automobile at a Motel 6.

– I have walked through the ruins of Pompeii, Italy.

– I have presented my research regarding the isomerization of isoxazolidinylmethyl tosylates to the American Chemical Society.

– I have knocked a guy’s teeth out with one punch.

– I have won an election as State Land Commissioner at Arkansas Boys State.

– I have created my own iPhone app.

– I have dressed up and sung a song as Mighty Mouse in front of hundreds of my peers.

– I have cracked the chest of a golden retriever.

– I have written an entire functional computer program using only assembly language.

– I have been “that guy” when a stewardess requested a doctor on an airplane in mid-flight.

– I have gotten my ear pierced in the French Quarter of New Orleans.

– I have assisted with an autopsy for a homicide at a U.S. Air Force base.

– I have stood next to my fiancée’s ex-husband as we witnessed the birth of my future stepson.

– I have been in a submarine off the coast of Hawaii.

– I have gone for a ride on the back of a fire engine wearing only my underpants.

– I have achieved the Field Marshal battle rank with my druid in World of Warcraft.

– I have acted as pediatrician while my wife performed a caesarean section.

– I have finished a complete marathon.

– I have vomited repeatedly while packed into a full stadium at a football game.

– I have journeyed to the top of a glacier in Alaska.

– I have cut a dead person completely in half through the midline using only a hand saw.

– I have assisted in brain surgery.

– I have been just a few feet away from a cluster of humpback whales that were bubble feeding.

– I have had my birthplace converted into a tourist attraction and museum.

– I have sat across the dinner table from Bill and Hillary Clinton as we all ate raccoons.

– I have placed an endotracheal tube in a person’s airway while my pants were around my ankles.

How many people can say they did all of that?

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Michael Guyer

Dr. Michael Guyer graduated from Hendrix College with a degree in chemistry and then obtained a medical degree from the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences. He is now a software developer for Apple Computer. He has formal computer programming training in C++, Objective C, Visual Basic, Java, HTML, and Swift.

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