'Heart- lung machine'. I had a quintuple. I was out cold- no near-death things or anything- but I almost drowned when I has a pulumonory edema (lungs suddenly flood with the body's water) as I was coming out of the anaesthesia.
It doesn't sound like your every day walk in the park operation. Glad you recovered.
I just hope that this is a life changing experience for Clinton. It would help him when he has to answer God about his veto of the "partial birth abortion ban".