Unbelievable Survivals: 70 Patients Defied All Odds Against Grim Medical Diagnoses
Couldn’t k**l the guy with an axe!
Best one I saw was a guy shot in the back, half an inch from his spine, he was totally stable sitting and talking to us. We saw the bullet sitting in between his svc, aorta and esophogus with injuries to no vital structure. Walked out a day or two later with just a band aid. Literal millimeter either way and he would’ve been a corpse, paralysed or needed major reconstructive surgery.
Edit: to be clear we saw the bullet on CT scan.
My grandfather, he had one eye from a roofing nail that flew up and destroyed it, a large scar on his forehead from an axe head flying off and the blade side hitting him, prostate cancer, and oh yeah he was hit by a train in his truck and was in a body cast from his armpits down for almost a year in the 50s…he lived till 96.
My wife treated a foreign student at the university she worked at who took some d**g, I don’t recall which, thought he could fly, and jumped out a third floor window, landing directly on his face. He went into a coma and when they x-rayed him (or some other scan), they found he’d aspirated all of his teeth. It took days to figure out who he was and over a week to contact his family.
ER nurse here. The one that immediately stands out in my mind was the diabetic who was, of course, noncompliant with her regimen, and came in feeling like c**p because her blood sugar was high.
How high? Try just below 1300.
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