Unbelievable Survivals: 70 Patients Defied All Odds Against Grim Medical Diagnoses
—car accident ahead of us on the freeway one day. Dad goes running up so I see none of the gore, but driver is suspended in his seat in a flipped over car. the car and the guy were both ripped in half at about mid-section. Dad goes to work on this guy who is fully conscious and rather concerned he’s missing everything below his hips. Being upside down kept enough blood in the guys brain that he was awake for a while – long enough the landed a helo on the highway and tried to fly him to the hospital. He didn’t make it, and I have never seen so much blood in my life. Dad left his clothes on the side of the road after giving the highway patrol a statement dropped me at school in his underwear. None of this struck him as strange at all.
A few years back my wife was doing clinicals at the local hospital while still in school and a guy came in with a blood sugar of 9…NINE!!! And he was totally conscious/lucid. As a type one diabetic myself I almost fell off my chair when I heard that.
Not a medical professional, but I used to hang around with one. They had a young woman brought in one night who had been stabbed 77 times and laid in a ditch for hours before someone saw her and called 911. She made a full recovery. My buddy was so shocked that she was alive and conscious that he called me from work to tell me about it.
And then there was a guy who fell off the third rung of a ladder, hit his head just right, and died instantly. Life is weird. Or..in this case, death is weird.
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