About That Time I Almost Died 

So glad you lived. The world is a better place with you in it.

Septicemia is no joke. Had that at 19 years old. Crazy time in the hospital. I was exhausted for about a month or so.

Thanks for sharing! Sepsis is nothing to play with. God bless!

I also am thankful that my wife is an RN now retired. I call her my interpreter. This old truck driver don't understand medical jargon. My wife has been there intervening for me for close to 50 years! I don't know how our family would have survived without her!

All's well that ends well. Happy that you got the help you needed, and your wife is a jewel to treasure.

God kept you here for a reason....and that's prolly so you could make these great videos that inspire thousands of ppl around the world.....glad ur still with us Pete and as allways god bless you ur family and ur farm

Scary stuff, glad you pulled threw it Pete🙏👍

Oh man!! I had c.diff and it took 4 years to overcome it. I remember how terrible day to day was. Thank you for sharing, your experience can help others be reflective on their own circumstances. You got me thinking.. :)

Love your channel. God bless.

Hillary is a lucky woman that you survived, bet she knows it too

My grandmother who was 92 and my best friend just passed, I must say Pete your videos are providing me with some comfort during some of the worst days of my life. Your calm voice and attitude have really helped soothe my pain a bit and I thank you. So glad you made it through and it's a good video to share because people may overlook septic shock very easily.

Just went though this with my Husband. He developed an open wound with the redness on his leg. It was so scary and i thought the wound would never heal but it did. I watch him like a Hawk now and give him lots of Probiotics and fermented foods to help his gut. So glad you're still around. You make the World a better place.

Yeap, it’s not fun. I went through a similar thing from a a psoriasis cyst. I was shutting down as well. Spent 8 days in the hospital. It can be a scary thing. Glad you pulled through Pete. 🇺🇸✌🏻❤️

I'm glad you're here to tell your story. I can identify with you. I became septic after having my colon nicked during surgery and not until 5 days later did it all come to a head. More surgery, 8 days in the hospital and then a long recovery. Though I was lucky. There was no damage to my intestine. Again I'm glad that you survived and give us joy with your channel. Continue for you and your family to remain healthy. Be well.

Your lucky to have your wife, I worked with a guy who lost his leg from stepping on a nail while roofing, if he went to the doctor earlier he would still have his leg.

Wow Pete that's quite the story. I'm glad you made it for many reasons but I really enjoy your videos

This is no joke I actually experienced the same thing the flesh was falling off my left leg and spent 7 days in the hospital and 7 bags of vancomicine antibiotics I completely understand how you felt I just stubbed my toe at the lake is all how it happened!! It's crazy great story Pete thanks for sharing!!

We are all so glad you made it!! Life needs to be looked after!!

Hey Pete I had a very similar event. I had got a skinned knuckle wile driving a tractor I was changing hydraulic lines all the time and got fluid in the spot Next thang I knew- I was in the E R with blood poisoning. Almost died. Can’t remember A thang

Glad to hear you recovered Pete. We never know when our time is up. Puts life into perspective. Enjoy ever moment ☘️🇮🇪 go n-éirí an bóthar leat

Dang, you got me scared when you said sepsis. Great story and I'm glad you made it through it!

The Father wasn’t done with you yet Pete! Your work on the farm and the way you share it with all of us is doing Gods work, I truly believe that. Thank you and carry on friend!

Hillary to the rescue! Glad you ended up coming out the other side, Pete!

I know how you feel Pete I wasn't hit by a splinter of wood but I went through the sepsis. I had a wound that I didn't notice on my left forearm it didn't bother me but it kept worse so I went to sickbay to have it looked at. The corpsman lanced it and found that it was a horrible infection nasty smell, etc...I was taken to US NAVAL Hospital Okinawa and placed in ICU. I stayed there for 4 days it must be a magic number Pete. I was given so many antibiotics and finally something worked. I had been on the rifle range yearly qualifications for Marines. The firing points were paved with asphalt the aggregate was coral and that gave me the infection. I am glad to see that you have bounced back Pete.

Pseudomembranous colitis is not pleasant, glad you had a happy ending.

I love how honest you are about your experience after the fact. My husband had a heart attack 5 or 6 years ago. He was pretty good about trying to eat healthier for about 6 months or so, then gradually fell back into the less healthy foods. Unfortunately he eats even worse than before the heart attack. Instead of pestering him, I tell him, as long as you're happy, you do you, I'll do me.

Wow, how bizarre no word of a lie Pete, same thing happen to me, but it was an old wooden deck we were removing. Wood splinter.

Thank goodness you’re okay we love you Pete

What a scary story Pete. I've had a family member go through pretty much the same thing you did. It is a very scary experience for you but family. But on a side note I wanted to say thank you. My father and I watched your restoration on your MD. We got inspiration to fix my great grandfather's 1952 super m. We're not gonna paint it or anything. But she runs good.

when i was a cop i was bitten i went to the hospital then sent home , i came back in the morning my hand looked like a baseball glove . i was admitted they threw lots of anti biotics three days later i was out. this scared me big time. Im glad your with us PETE

That’s a crazy story! Glad you came through!

It’s eerie that the scratch, that could definitely occur anywhere on farm, happened right where your Grandpa had his accident. ☠️

Thank you Pete - it had a happy ending - your still here . Love your stories - keep telling them !

Just watched this, July 2024. Don't know if you'll see this comment Pete but my admiration for you and your approach to your farm and life in general is indescribably heartfelt. Things happen. There is drama. It's how you react that makes all the difference. And you reacted the best way possible.

Wow, weird it came from a log bumping you? Glad your ok Buddy, take care🚜🪵👍🏼🇺🇸

Thank you for sharing. It may have only been a blip to you, but to your loving wife, three children and parents it must have scared them each very deeply. Hell it scared me! So glad you survived.

That is like a story that I tell at work. To my operators to report all injuries no matter how minor they are. The story that I tell is about a man that stuck a sonic toothpick in his foot and didn’t realize that the tip broke off in his foot and he almost lost his foot because of it. Thanks for the story. I may use it at my next safety meeting. If you don’t mind thanks again

Great video Pete! Loved your cinematography and of course I'm glad you survived.

I had the same thing about 3 years ago from a dead jaw bone that was replaced because from radiation from throat cancer treatments I went through in 2012 through 2017. I like you, felt horrible. It got really bad to where I couldn’t walk to the car so my wife could take me to the hospital.

Wow that was more than a bump in the road. I would of called it a mountain. Because it toke a whole year to get better between your scratch and your gut..l say god was watching out for you and your wife was too. Bless them both for looking out for you. It's great when you can count on family.

So so glad you lived. Love your videos always.

I am so glad I have found your channel. Being from Oklahoma it’s refreshing to see folks from New York that are not from the cities. The great thing about channels like yours is we see how much people from all states have so much in common. Thanks for letting me peek into your life.

Thanks for the story Pete. I can definitely say that I've been there and done that and I had C-diff also. The one great thing that you had going for you is that Hillary was a critical care nurse and I didn't have that. I love your stories and look forward to them every time you post. Have a great day and a wonderful day tomorrow at the Ithaca Farmers Market.

The irony about how a scratch almost killed you while you end the video half hugging a tractor so old and rusty it almost looks like a tree is not lost on me Pete. Thanks for another great life story.

Pete I just watched this two days ago and commented on a barbed wire incident I’d just had. Low and behold, I looked down just a moment ago and was surprised to see redness, and quite a large swelling toward my elbow. I had drawn the circle like you said you’d done, and I see it has spread below it a bit in the other direction. I’m cancelling my plans tomorrow and trying to get into my dr…if not, then a walk-in clinic. It’s a bit sore, I just hadn’t paid attention to it bcs I was busy. THANK YOU

I skipped all the super popular RU-vidrs for your video I just get way more enjoyment from your channel keep up the great work!

Modern medical care saved you,thanks for science.

That's a great story of life on the farm and just how simple things can go wrong.

Great story. I'm glad you made it out alive. I'm learning a lot from you about life. Well done.

HI Pete, that was interesting. I had similar symptoms only my infection was an abscess on the inside of the liver. I was lucky they had an antibiotic to combat the infection. But that being said, the stomach reacted to all those antibiotics good bacteria gone. To combat the stomach issue I was able to restore my stomach rhythm by taking probiotics (5 billion ). I was amazed the medical profession didn't prescribe probiotics. Nurses said you should eat yogurt that's only a soother. Now any time I have to take antibiotics I follow with "probiotics 5 billion". Stay Safe

great to see you made it. life wouldnt be the same

Yes, Pete. Even today a scratch can kill you. At least today you don't have worry about tetanus. We are all perched on the edge of mortality, just like the Dexters you choose for the butcher each week. It is so easy to forget that simple fact. It's good that the cows forget that a few of the herd are missing every week. Maybe good for us as well. Not for each of us individually, of course, but for the herd. Can you imagine what would happen if cows started worrying about the future?

Glad you got recovered. Septic shock with MRSA infection risk higher among the farm workers due to farm animals who are the source. Mostly infected with antibiotics resistance bacteria, as a infectious diseases Ispecialist I see that quite often.

That was a horrifying story Pete. Glad you’re OK.

Thanks for the story. My near death experience came while I was still working for the man trying to pay for the farm. It was in the seat of a crane. Everything happened so fast that there wasn't time to think, react, let alone reminisce! But it was a moment that I relived over and over. You can't put some experience into words. It changes your perspective. People around you can't really understand your decisions after that point. Until they have the experience?

Wow Pete!!! Holy Smoke. That is SCARRY !!! I am SO Happy to hear that You and Hillary and the Kids pulled through that Ordeal Cheers

We are so fragile.

An amazing story. I just finished your book " A Year and a Day " what a great read, well written and to the point. I am so glad that I have found you and your farm ( family too ) ; Thanks for everything, may god bless you and yours............

I don't know if it works but I alway disinfect immediately any skin breaks regardless of the size. Maybe I've just been lucky.

Pete !! Talk about blue eyes to drop dead for !! You got them !!

Your videos are seriously the best videos on RU-vid I’ve watched every video an most of them I’ve watched twice! Your not just about a farmer your part of the building block to our country an what built it! The life lessons you talk about or show or do inspires me to be a better father better husband an hopefully a better community person! There needs to be more families like yours in this world. I wish but nothing but the best for you all! Please don’t ever stop making videos lol

First of all, Glad you made it through the experience. Secondly, I think we are all beginning to realize how amazing Hillary is. Thirdly, watching you two work as a team is inspiring.

I am very glad that you survived Pete!!👍👍

Thanks for relating. In September of 2006 I had 60% of my pancreas, spleen and a few lymph nodes removed because of cancer. In November I remember going to work, getting about half way through my commute feeling lousy. I noticed all of my windows were steamed up in the truck. I got home, took my temperature and it was 104. I remember riding in the car going to the hospital and thinking, "I've survived 5 bouts of cancer and now an infection is going to kill me. I had developed a fistula that resulted in sepsis. I spent about a week in the hospital until the infection was under control. Pretty scary times.

Thanks Pete for sharing your personal story. Glad you are still here teaching small scale farming.

I'm glad you are still with us Pete! You make my day so much better when you post a new video. I really enjoy your videos.

😳😳😳 Oh my goodness!!! I am happy for you and your family that it turned out well. 🙌🙌 God bless you all. 🙌🙌👍🙏☝️

I'm glad you made it through it Pete.

Oh boy can't wait to hear this one!

Thanks for sharing your story.can you do a video on your tractors that sit out in the weeds?

Thanks for sharing your life' with us Life is short we need to be reminded .Love your channel and Farm.

My dad almost died cutting wood. He was sitting on the tractor with the log splitter on the back. They cut down a tree and it ended up falling wrong and it landed on the tractor. The tree crushed the steering wheel, nearly missing my dad sitting on the tractor. Literally was inches from death.

Sorry .I have a Farmall M with a loader. On Memorial day 2017 I was working with it and rolled it over. I ended up under it with the seat crushing my chest and something had punctured my calf of my right leg. I figured that was the way my wife would find me only I would be dead. Fortunately my cell phone was still on my belt and was able to call 911. There's more to the story but I'm still here today and have a much different view on life

Hey Pete glad you are OK. I know how you felt when this happened to you. I got a scratch on my knee and a week later I had MRSA and a staff infection. I was in the hospital for 3 1/2 days getting pumped with antibiotics and almost lost my leg. Not sure where you are with GOD but he was definitely watching over me. I am extremely happy you made it through that blip of you life. I think GOD was watching over you as well because you are now a huge influence to many people including myself. Love the videos and keep going strong bud

I've experienced a few times when the Drs had done all they could and they'd warned my loved ones there was little hope, no big life changing experiences for me either yet a slow increase in understanding what's no longer important to me. Now I do enjoy each day just as it is, glad to be alive, so I do take time to smell the roses, acknowledge all living things and scatter more seeds. Thanks for the videos every new video is watched and I am working my way through all I've not seen. Cheers from Western Australia

I wanna se you start the old tractor we see at the end of the video

Wow Pete you went through alot. I had c-diff once. It was horrible. I just had my ileostomy reversed and a few weeks later I got the c-diff. Thank God you are all better. And thank God I am better too.

So glad you made it through Pete. I went Septic about 13 years ago and had a very similar experience. I actually collapsed walking into the ER. I had a fever of 105.7 and my heart rate was 188. I just remember a blur of doctors and medical staff. They had two IVs going and also packed me in ice. The scariest part I remember is they strapped a defibrillator to my chest thinking I may have a heart attack at any moment . I was in the hospital for three days and took another week to recover and mostly sleep. It’s scary, scary stuff. I’ll never forget that the doctor that wrote up the case wrote that I was a “very pleasant man” 😄 I guess I stayed polite and affable at least. It figures you are a fellow Vonnegut fan. Man do I miss him. Stay healthy!

Hillarie, thank you for saving Pete's life! If you hadn't spotted that infection when you did, like most of us men, he would have left it until it was too late. Doesn't bear thinking about.

Wow, from a little scratch. I'm glad you made it through. We are all better for it. Thanks for sharing Pete.

Love the vids! Keep it up! From North Carolina!

U had a major medical crisis before age 65, my sons was at age 12, u both living

I went septic in 2018. A big kidney stone dislodged and blocked my kidney. I didn't know anything until one day I started shaking violently, completely out of control and was hyperventilating like you. I was barely able to do two things, call 911and unlock the houses front door. I woke up in the ER and must admit morphine is good stuff. The stuff they removed from my kidney looked like oatmeal. Spent 10 days in ICU. Doc's said I was lucky I called 911 when I did, they almost lost me. If I waited one more hour I would have died from septic shock.

Love that you did this video. My mother passed away from Sepsis. I wish more people where aware of it. Thank you for letting others know. I'm going people learn more about it so that people don't need to die unnecessarily. Glad you made it. We enjoy your videos.

A biting fly nearly killed me. The bite didn't look infected, nor hurt, but just wouldn't heal. Eventually symptoms of the staph infection set in and I became very ill. Three surgeries, 19 days in ICU, 3 1/2 months on IV antibiotics, and 8 months later I was infection free and learning to walk again. It's been two years, but I'm almost back to complete health and mobile again, although I'm on an oral antibiotic for life. So glad you are healthy again, too. Thanks for the videos, glimpses of a life well lived, and teachable moments.

My friend who was a dairy farmer in Newark Valley told me of another farmer down that way who was plowing close to the hedgerow and he scratched his arm on the wild rose bushes. Being an old coot who never went to the doctor, he ignored it. They amputated his arm. He figured out ways to do his farming work one-handed, but he should have had a 'Hilary', shouldn't he? As you told the story, I was wondering how all of those long-term anti-biotics affected your system. Glad you answered that, too. When I worked at the vet school, they used donor cow ruminant fluid to get a sick cow's gut health back. Seems like that could do something similar with humans. Just sayin'. :)

all i’ve been looking at are your piercing blue eyes

That was a bad experience, sorry to hear that your Grandfather passed that way ,your experience like many others will help others to avoid those dangers GOD BLESS and have a great weekend

In April of 2009 I went through almost the same thing. Except mine was in my right knee after a routine scope for a torn meniscus. Six days in the hospital, 60 pounds lost, three years on disability, and at 28 years old I became one of the youngest people my Ortho ever did a total knee replacement replacement on because it cause so much scar tissue.

I know this is very scary. I went thru this with my husband too. He was in hospital 5 days. Thankyou for sharing. 🙏🌻

So glad that you made it, you're so lucky to have such a loving wife, this world is so much better with you two existing in it

glad your ok pete. my grandfather had sepsis after a knee replacement. thank god both of yall are alright!!

Im glade your still with us

Moral to the story: near death experience = no shame for really bad jokes. Haha!

Love your videos. You inspired us to start a channel. Glad you didn’t die!

Boy, did I ever relate to this story from you! I had an injury almost exactly like yours from cutting wood. I had on a pair of rubber boots and luckily the skin was not broken. Not much pain but it was red. It's my sister that freaked out and said after a couple of days to go to the doctor and so I did. The doctor wanted to send me IMMEDIATELY to the hospital but I scoffed at that and she ended up giving me an antibiotic that luckily worked right away otherwise I would have ended up in the same predicament as you did. I did have to run back to her every 2 days. I loved firewood but wood doesn't like me. I've had cellulitis multiple times from wood injuries that seemed like nothing at first. I don't mess around with it anymore.

My wife went through the same thing from a strep infection in her arm was on ventilator and dialysis for 2 weeks lost both hands and toes on both feet. That was 1.5 years ago and is doing fine now!!!

Glad you made it. I have a Farmall

See ! Don't play with strange wood ! 😜 Glad you're ok !

Yes, I've listened to your story...but I must confess, my attention was drawn to all your tractors!