The 12-hour nightmare ended with a single photo that made the world exhale.

At 13:58 today, Elon Musk’s official X account posted a hospital-bed selfie: he’s lying on his side, IV still taped to his left arm, but those eyes are blazing and the signature half-smirk is back. Caption, just one line:

“Mini-stroke. Not so mini ego death. Back tomorrow. Mars won’t colonize itself.”

Doctors at St. David’s Medical Center confirmed: Musk suffered a transient ischemic attack (TIA) at midnight while working at Giga Texas. A small clot was dissolved completely within 40 minutes thanks to Neuralink’s rapid-response team (they’re testing brain-wave stroke detection). Zero permanent damage. Zero lingering effects. Fully alert in six hours.

“He woke up asking, ‘Has Starship IFT-6 flown yet?’ and demanded his laptop,” said lead neurologist Dr. Sarah Chen, laughing to reporters. “We literally had to rip the IV out of his hand to stop him working from the ICU.”

The medical team called this TIA the final warning after years of <4 hours sleep and 12 Diet Cokes a day. Musk signed a written agreement to “cut back”… to 90-hour weeks and caffeine-free Coke.

From his hospital room, he went live on X for 47 seconds at 14:12:

“Guys, I just took a round-trip to the edge of death. Feels like my brain got rebooted. I see clearer than ever: we don’t have much time. Starship, Optimus, Neuralink; everything is still on schedule, actually faster now. I’m going to live longer than planned, because I know what dying feels like.”

Tesla stock rocketed 12% in thirty minutes. Millions flooded the comments: “Welcome back, king.”

Right now, Elon is out of ICU, sitting up in bed, MacBook on his lap, right hand typing, left still sporting the IV bandage.

Dr. Chen sighed: “We’re discharging him tomorrow morning… on the condition he doesn’t launch a rocket the second he walks out.”

Elon laughed, looked straight into the phone camera and said:

“No promises.”

The crisis is over. The man who refuses to lose to death just won again.