I graduated from two private schools--a small liberal arts college and a free-standing law school, so I know about the glossy junk mail asking for money. Seems like as they say about churches--every Sunday is Palm Sunday--as in asking for handouts!! 
And since you went to their fabulous school, you're obviously rich and successful, so you should be able to donate? Am I right?
That ICU vacation was almost two years ago and I'm fine now. I didn't need to go on insulin and just had to modify my medications a bit which were causing the problem. However, after they did a CAT scan of my lungs, the docs refused to tell me how many clots I had and how big which I think means in medical terms "scarier than hell".
One of my docs said a saddle embolism can make you drop in your tracks and kill you in an instant. I had one of those, where the artery behind your heart splits like a T with curved up ends(hence the name saddle) and goes to your lungs, but it wasn't big enough to kill me. I found a picture on Wikipedia of a saddle embolism and it was scary. Basically I was about 24 hours or less from certain death. I remember the doc standing at the foot of my bed and saying "You are moderately to critically ill". That got my attention. I was alert and awake the whole time.
I'd been cooking Thanksgiving dinner all day, in another state, out of breath and panting violently, so I went to the ER. That was a Thanksgiving to remember. And none of the guests said thank you for cooking dinner. 
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