Hardcore Hemingway [Dark] · 11:04pm Apr 30th, 2014
Sometimes when you're doing research papers, you come across some cool stuff. Such as this little tidbit from the life of Ernest Hemingway, according to an article by the very reputable Bloom's Literary Reference.
"[Ernest] and Mary were married on March 14, 1946. A month later, while the two of them drove to Sun Valley for a vacation with his three sons, Mary had an ectopic pregnancy (the fertilized egg implants in the fallopian tube rather than in the uterus), the fallopian tube burst, and the doctor at the Casper, Wyoming, hospital told Hemingway that she was going to die. Ernest immediately inserted a tube intravenously while she was still on the operating table and "milked" plasma into her arm until she regained consciousness so the doctor could operate. The doctors and nurses, the anesthetist, and Mary all gave Ernest credit for saving her life. "
#truefact
[Source] : Oliver, Charles M. "Hemingway, Ernest." Critical Companion to Ernest Hemingway: A Literary
Reference to His Life and Work, Critical Companion. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2007. Bloom's Literature. Facts On File, Inc. Web. 30 Apr. 2014
<http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&WID=16029&SID=5&iPin=CCEH0001&SingleRecord=True>.
Holy crap!