In May, 1999, when spam was just starting to be a thing... I got an email from a strange address, and almost deleted it. It was from a high school friend, now m

In May, 1999, when spam was just starting to be a thing... I got an email from a strange address, and almost deleted it. It was from a high school friend, now my wife. 8) On 07/07/07 I was heading with our one year old daughter to visit a railroad museum in a rural area about 80 miles south of home, when I started having a bit of a back ache. I stopped and got some ibuprofen, and continued on my journey. After a few minutes, the pain spread and it got worse... I decided to stop, call my wife (a nurse) and ask what to do... that call saved my life, and possibly someone else's along with my daughters. She had me call 911 and head back towards civilization. The ambulance met me at the off-ramp, took great care of my daughter, and got me to the hospital. It turned out that my gall bladder had declared war on my pancreas, and if I hadn't stopped and gotten treatment, it might have killed me. I am now a man with no gall. So, opening that email changed everything.