Unbelievable Survivals: 70 Patients Defied All Odds Against Grim Medical Diagnoses
He rode back home and crawled into bed. Later, his mom made him go to the local clinic that had a small ER. They life-flighted him down to Duluth immediately. He had a ruptured spleen, part of his liver was torn, his heart was badly bruised, and he had a collapsed lung. He was bleeding pretty bad internally.
The doc told him that, if he hadn’t been so muscular, he would have died out on the trail. The man was about 6 feet and 245lbs and ripped like a body builder when he started. 6 months and a bunch of surgeries later, he was maybe 130lbs. He looked like death and his whole chest was railroad tracks. They had to crack his chest twice to deal with his heart and opened up his abdomen numerous times to deal with infections.
Now, he’s the same loud crazy person he always was. A successful business owner with a wife and kids.
Everyone thought he was going to die. Including the doctors, but he pulled through.
You know those big, 16-18 inch kitchen knives that everyone has? Had a lady come in with one sticking sideways out of her neck, handle on the left side and top sticking out the right. She went to OR, where they removed the knife in one of the most tense, a*****e-clenched moments in history….Minimal bleeding. Apparently the knife split right between her major blood vessels and airway. Was lying right against them, didn’t scratch ’em. Absolutely incredible.
My dad. Walked a mile to see a friend and tried to walk up the stairs. Couldn’t get up one step. Walked back one mile to his office, looked up who his doctor was, since he hadn’t seen one in 20 years, and drove there. No appointment. Dr. hooks him up to an EKG, but it’s fine. Tells him there’s a cardiologist next door, it’s the end of the day, they’ll see him. Just in case.
They hook him up to a blood pressure monitor while he’s on a treadmill. The monitor is behind him, he can’t see it. He starts walking. They set a countdown timer for 3 minutes, and about 30 seconds in, one of the nurses steps out of the room. My dad is watching the timer and it counts down to zero. He feels fine and figures he’s going home but the door opens and two ambulance attendants are wheeling in a gurney.
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