seizure because he was conscious and he was talking. >> his fingers were blue. by the time we got to the e.r., we learned there was an abscess on the tonsil. >> so we went into everything expecting it to be extremely routine. but it was during the surgery that ben experienced cardiac arrest. >> he finally got up to icu and he was unconscious and they had him on a breathing machine. they warned us that when he woke up, the hope was he would be able to breath on his own. we didn't know what to expect and when he woke up, he looked at ali or me or one of us and said, guys, i need to get back to work. and that's the first thing on his mind. and we're like, okay, ben's back. ben's body was just getting weaker.