He was mostly dead.
I was once almost eaten by an alligator.
Maybe he was pining for the fjords?
I had my second triple bypass on 2 Jan 2008. There were some severe complications, unlike my first. I was in a chemically-induced coma for four days. When I first came to, I thought for sure I was headed for hell. I thought I was being tortured by foreign devils. Turns out there were two Filipino nurses working on me, taking tubes out of my throat, talking in Tagalog-accented English. One of them told me to do something and I answered him in Tagalog. I hadn’t been to the Philippines in over 40 years. The nurses were as shocked as I was.