You're saying you drowned but then swam back to shore--died, er--were retired, and then died again?

I think maybe I'm just missing the story that connects the dots there. [Because those sure are some dots with some big ol' gaps between them, K.]

And if it's working then I'm glad. [But that's the question, isn't it, and at this point he's just going to come out and ask.] Is it working?