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What happened to you, Sig Hansen?
Heres what the 53-year-old fisherman had to say.
Credit: Jason Elias/Discovery Channel
I had another scare.
Honesty what happened was, I was on an antibiotic, and I had an allergic reaction to it.
My wife and I were driving and I started to swell up, my throat, hands, everything.
I was choking out on the interstate.
She called 911, I kept driving 100 miles an hour and went right to the ER.
The nurse said I probably had less than 10 minutes.
They gave me the EpiPen, and then my body went into a shock.
I grabbed my chest and said, Im in pain.
They checked my blood levels and said, Jesus Christ, you are having a heart attack.
The allergic reaction brought on a heart attack, so I went through that baloney again.
Wait, why were you on antibiotics?I had a sinus infection in Norway.
When flew in from Norway, my ear was in pain from a sinus infection.
I asked the dentist to give me some antibiotics.
Thank God I was on land.
They got me to another hospital.
They found out things werent so hunky-dory, so they put in a stent.
And at the same time I got busted for smoking in the hospital.
I snuck around and they had a bunch of people watching me.
And they said, You know, you arent supposed to do that.
You were smoking in the hospital?
?I was in the hallway smoking.
They chased me down the hall and they caught me.
I looked like the biggest ahole.
They caught me red-handed.
I never touched a cigarette after that.
Im thinking to myself, How pathetic can you be?
How much control does addiction have over me?
I never smoked ever again.
Had I not been busted for smoking, I probably would still be smoking to this day.
Arent you worried about going back out to sea?Im still afraid to go on the boat.
I dont like it anymore.
I dont even remember this king crab season.
Im still trying to get over this last winter.
I cant get it out of my mind.
Its been rally hard.
I dont know how much more Ive got left in me.
It wasnt as bad as I thought it would be on the boat.
Its worse at home.
Im a bigger ahole at home than I am on the boat, to my wifes peril.
On the boat you are always busy, always working.
I was able to get through it [without a cigarette].
How do you feel about your daughter, Mandy, taking over theNorthwestern?Oh, shes fine.
She and her husband can take it and run.
They are young, they got this, For me, Im done.
I got a foot out the door.
My mentality is different from it was 20 years ago.
You only get so many chances.
Im hoping it makes sense.
So then quit!I cant stop, thats the problem.
All of us are egomaniacs.
You want to stop, but the ego portion wont let me stop.
Theres no way in hell.
See what I mean?
You know that song Torn Between Two Lovers?
Thats kind of what is going on here.
Really what we need is a shrink.
If we could get a goddamn shrink in Dutch Harbor, wed be better off.
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