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1. "My lad was dropping disconnected the nighttime deposit from his work, and a feline popped up and tried to rob him. He started rolling up the window, and the feline pulled retired a weapon and changeable him. He was aiming for his head, but my lad jerked distant astatine the past minute, truthful the slug went done 1 broadside of his feature and retired the other, blowing retired astir of his teeth. He drove himself to the hospital, wherever they removed the solid from his face, sewed up his cheeks, and cleaned up his mouth. He had to person dental implants and has a tiny scar connected some cheeks, but is different fine. I don't cognize however successful the hellhole helium drove himself to the hospital."
2. "A antheral who goes to religion with my in-laws was trampled by a 1900-lb bull. No breached bones. Not adjacent a fracture. All helium got was a mild concussion and needed immoderate musculus relaxers."
3. "My dada is 1 of 2 radical I cognize who've been enactment successful the ICU by being thrown from a play cart. He thought helium was good and went home, past the adjacent time realized thing was up and went to the ER to larn helium had a breached neck."
"Nurses kept coming by to spot him due to the fact that usually radical don't unrecorded done his circumstantial benignant of break. He had to person a halo for a portion (think Regina George aft the bus), and betterment was not fun, but a decennary later, he's doing great."
4. "I had a household subordinate effort to termination themselves with a gunshot to the head. They missed their brain, and to this day, the lone happening you tin spot is simply a scar connected their chin (the exit coiled is hidden by hair)."
5. "When I was successful aesculapian school, we had a gunshot unfortunate travel in. He had been moving and was changeable portion helium tripped. You could spot wherever the slug went successful his foot, travelled up done the body, and stopped astatine the extortion of his mouth, wherever it near a bruise. It missed each large organ. Absolutely amazing!"
6. "My gramps (who was successful his precocious eighties astatine the clip this communicative took place) was electrocuted and lived. Now he’s acold from the lone one, but his communicative is beauteous cool! Grandpa went to adjacent a powerfulness container that had flown unfastened aft a atrocious FL thunderstorm. Unfortunately, helium brushed against a unrecorded ligament and was shocked with (I believe) 16,000 volts. The happening that saved him? His ticker (analog). The doctors judge the energy exited his assemblage done his watch. The kicker? The ticker inactive works — I person it!"
"Grandpa was life-flighted to a infirmary implicit an hr away, and my ma and I flew down to spot him. I was excessively young to beryllium a visitant successful the pain ICU, but my gramps screamed and demanded to spot me, truthful I enactment connected an big gown, gloves, and disguise and got to spot him for 5 minutes. Looking backmost connected it, I deliberation helium wanted to marque definite helium said goodbye. He, of course, lived to the ripe aged property of 94 contempt having a beingness expectancy of 55, acknowledgment to his bosom issues. Go figure!"
7. "We erstwhile had a woman who was driving, and a histrion fell successful beforehand of her car, causing her to thrust into it. She came successful with a four-inch diameter subdivision wholly impaling her done her tummy and retired of her back. She was wholly awake, alert, connected look mask, lying connected her broadside due to the fact that the subdivision was inactive done her backmost erstwhile she arrived astatine the OR. She did large and walked retired of the infirmary with minimal complications."
8. "My Grandma Mary (Grammary) is simply a nurse. In the 1970s, she spent immoderate clip connected St. Lawrence Island. There was a young antheral (possibly Yupik?) who was attacked by a polar carnivore portion walking on 1 of the Northern banks. By the clip Grammary and her adjunct got to the scene, the antheral was astir wholly white. His full near limb was missing, and his close limb was missing beneath the elbow. His legs were mostly intact, but they were covered successful gashes. He had been eviscerated, and astir of his ample intestines were hanging retired connected the snowfall adjacent to him."
"She says that she honestly thought she was determination to administer immoderate morphine and telephone it. But helium was incredibly lucid. He told her astir the onslaught and wherever he'd past seen his near limb (on the borderline of the enactment wherever the carnivore had flung it). He adjacent made a walk astatine Grammary. He said thing similar 'if you spot my bosom successful there, it's yours' portion she was trying to unafraid his organs capable to determination him inside. After they stabilized him, they got him to Norton Sound (about 45 minutes distant by seaplane) wherever a trauma squad was capable to conscionable them. The antheral came retired of it with astir of his organs, and they were adjacent capable to sew his near limb backmost on."
9. "A psych diligent managed to swallow respective paring knives. Snapped disconnected the handle: 4 successful total. The diligent required a afloat laparotomy to region the knives. Cuts successful the esophagus, cuts wrong the stomach. No piercing through. The diligent made a afloat betterment aft a week oregon so. Most unbelievable but 100 percent true."
10. "My lad is 30 and rides motorcycles. Several months ago, helium drove respective hours to Michigan (from Wisconsin) to acquisition a stunt motorcycle (has a clang framework connected it, and immoderate other hand-holds, etc). He was driving it back, and astatine the borderline of Indiana and Illinois, helium mistook a toll booth for a accelerated walk route, realizing excessively precocious that helium had to stop. He ended up someway missing the car stopped successful beforehand of him, was thrown from the bike, and slammed into a factual barrier. The motorcycle whipped done the spread betwixt the car and the toll machine. He estimated helium was going 50 to 70 mph (because helium was doing 70, but deed the brakes). The motorcycle was mostly unscathed. I begged him to spell to the ER, but helium refused. Luckily, the miss he's dating is simply a nurse, and she told him to spell (so helium listened to her). NOTHING. He had thing broken, thing sprained. He was fine."
"The adjacent fewer days, helium had immoderate random bruising appear, but nary symptom astatine all. He was wearing his cogwheel (motorcycle jacket, gloves, helmet)."
—pahz
11. "Ten years agone to the day, actually, I woke up from a month-long coma owed to an anoxic encephalon injury. I had zero encephalon function, and the neurologist was trying to get my woman to propulsion the plug. 'This is the explanation of encephalon death,' helium said. 'We tin proceed to support him alive, but yet an corruption volition termination him.' These were the doctor's nonstop words, which were seconded by the remainder of my attraction team. Luckily, my wife, who is an amazingly beardown idiosyncratic and all-around badass, said a large 'f you' to those doctors and moved maine into a semipermanent acute attraction hospital. The PT started moving maine around, successful what I tin lone presume was a Weekend astatine Bernie's benignant situation, and successful the immortal words...I got better."
12. "On a workplace tract adjacent my mum's aged home, a ploughing tractor someway toppled over, which threw the workplace idiosyncratic halfway retired of a window. His comparative went retired to cheque connected him erstwhile helium didn't travel location for dinner, seemingly 4 hours later. They recovered him with the bottommost fractional of his assemblage (from the waist down) pinned nether the tractor. His pelvis and 1 limb were shattered, and determination was immoderate interior bleeding, but helium was alive. They believed the crushed softened from the earlier rainfall astir apt saved his life. Anyhow, helium recovered good capable to beryllium backmost successful enactment astir a twelvemonth later. Pretty amazing."
"I person a akin story! The lad of a household person was riding successful the tractor with his dada astatine astir property 4 erstwhile helium was jolted disconnected and RUN OVER by the tractor. He spent a agelong clip successful PICU astatine 1 of the champion hospitals successful the state. He had to person a halo screwed into his head, among different stabilizing instruments (I vividly retrieve going to sojourn him). He's successful his aboriginal 30s now, and you would NEVER cognize helium went done this. Doctors suggested the plowed crushed was brushed capable that alternatively of the tractor tyre popping him similar a grape, it pushed him into the dirt, which cushioned him."
13. "A two-year-old tally implicit by a UPS truck. The operator felt it, and the parent witnessed it. The kid was admitted from the ER to my level for observation. Nothing, I mean nothing, was incorrect with this child."
"This happened to my member erstwhile helium was two, but it was a regular car. It ran implicit him twice, spanning the magnitude of his full assemblage but his head. Got distant with immoderate musculus bruising, and that was it. Doctors couldn't explicate it but to accidental helium was 1 fortunate kid."
14. "December 9, 2019: the White Island volcano erupts astatine 2:11 p.m. with 47 radical connected land. Of those 47 people, I was a portion of a radical of 21 who were close astatine that crater erstwhile it erupted. Of our radical of 21 people, 20 of america were trapped inland waiting for rescue for implicit 1.5 hours. (One idiosyncratic miraculously walked to the docking country and escaped via vessel with others). I could spot astir of america were live whilst waiting, hardly though. I was intelligibly severely burnt and could not breathe; we were stuck successful the boiling blistery prima and sitting/collapsed connected blistery ash/the burning ground. By the clip I made it to a hospital, it was 4:11 p.m., 2 hours later. When I awoke from my coma and had to retrieve successful a infirmary for six months, I recovered retired that retired of the 20 of america trapped there, lone I and 1 different idiosyncratic survived. That's 10%."
"We should not person survived, and each day, I endure from survivor's guilt. I suffered 70% full-thickness burns, mislaid 8 of my fingers, and suffered from infections and pneumonia. My surgeons don't cognize however I survived."
15. "My step-grandmother was a doc and shared this communicative with maine earlier she died. Basically, a feline was attacked by a clump of 'young thugs' successful her words. He had a fewer breached ribs, and get this: the feline seemingly had an axe successful his thorax erstwhile they recovered him. Apparently, it was a fewer inches distant from his heart. He had aggregate stab wounds, a achromatic eye, and a severely breached nose. He survived aft weeks successful the hospital."
16. "When I was 21, I had an wounded that provoked a humor clot successful my near leg, which prolonged the healing process for my breached bones successful the leg. Before I could person country to hole my breached leg, I had a humor clot filter inserted into my large artery (vena cava). That process went routinely, until the adjacent time erstwhile I started having backmost pain. I brushed it disconnected until I started throwing up humor and was successful and retired of consciousness for 2 hours. Turns out, the humor clot filter punctured a spread successful my large artery, and I internally bled onto my spine. I had a hematoma the size of a cantaloupe. I tried to sue, but couldn’t, due to the fact that it had ne'er happened before."
"They did a lawsuit survey connected it erstwhile the filter was removed a fewer months later. I’m bully now, though!"
17. "My ma hadn't been feeling good for a fewer weeks, but thought it was conscionable immoderate bug that she couldn't shake. She ended up going to a walk-in urgent attraction to get immoderate meds. The caregiver took her humor pressure, and it was entity high. She had nary hint however my ma adjacent walked into the clinic, and told my ma to spell consecutive to the ER, oregon she would telephone an ambulance for her. My ma asked for immoderate meds conscionable to get her done the holiday, and she would spot her doc after. Luckily, the caregiver insisted she spell close away. After moving different errand oregon two, my ma yet went to the ER. She had 99-100% blockages successful 4 coronary arteries. Doctors said, according to her symptoms, they estimated she'd been having a full-on bosom onslaught for astir a month."
"She had a quadruple bypass connected Christmas Eve and is doing large now."
18. "My grandpa has bosom illness (among different things), and helium underwent aggregate procedures to enactment stents in. He was inactive experiencing thorax pains and shortness of enactment astir a twelvemonth aft getting his past 2 stents enactment in, truthful they discovered that plaque had continued to physique up successful his arteries, fundamentally rendering the stents useless. He's not a campaigner for bypass surgery, and helium was steadily getting worse successful the hospital, truthful fundamentally everyone assumed helium wouldn't survive. I don't retrieve precisely what happened, but retired of nowhere, helium started improving. Eventually, the doctors called my uncle and said, 'We don't cognize however this happened, but helium grew caller arteries. There are caller humor vessels successful his bosom that didn't utilized to beryllium there.' Apparently, successful immoderate uncommon cases, the bosom tin turn caller humor vessels to bypass the blocked ones. My grandpa's been good ever since."
19. "Guy came successful with a foot-long scalp laceration, respective abdominal punctures, and an eight-inch weapon sticking halfway retired of his sternum, inactive talking to EMTs during report. He was worked up, stapled up, and discharged that nighttime aft they picked up his member for doing it. No punctures to immoderate organs, nary cardiac/pulmonary injuries, nary intestinal perforation. Idk how. I sent him to the OR — I was capable to adjacent consent the guy, which was surreal arsenic I was connected telephone trauma resident. An hr later, they said it was the close call, but they conscionable did conscious sedation and pulled it retired with anesthesia, and surgeons gowned and acceptable to intervene — and helium was bully for discharge arsenic his constabulary chaperone said it was safe."
20. "A woman attended the ED with her pharynx slit. She was unluckily a home maltreatment victim, and a vile antheral had chopped her pharynx with a precise large, sharp, and jagged-edged knife. The coiled was truthful horrific and deep, it inactive baffles everyone however she survived. But not lone did she survive, but she was besides conscious the full time! Thanks to the speedy actions of the paramedics, they were capable to support the airway and spot a tracheostomy."
21. "About 15 years ago, my member was successful his mid-20s and messing astir with drugs and intoxicant beauteous heavily. One night, helium and immoderate friends, each precocious retired of their minds, determine to interruption into a cellphone operation and ascent to the top. Once there, my member makes the emblematic dependable determination to effort to 'skate' down 1 of the anchoring wires connected his sneakers portion clutching 2 beers for balance. Of course, things went badly; helium fell astir arsenic soon arsenic helium fto spell of the tower, plummeting astir 80 feet consecutive down. He landed connected 1 of the posts for the concatenation nexus obstruction the radical had chopped done to get there, impaling himself done the abdomen and pelvis arsenic good arsenic wholly pulverizing his feet, little legs, and hips."
"My parents were contacted successful the mediate of the night, and we each caught the archetypal level retired to the infirmary to accidental our goodbyes. We expected to get excessively late. The doctors said determination was nary mode helium would past the night, and adjacent if helium did, by immoderate miracle, helium would ne'er locomotion again. However, helium didn't dice earlier we got determination and actually managed to retrieve astir each of his mobility implicit the adjacent fewer years."
22. "C1 DISLOCATION LADY! She was successful a car clang earlier that day, checked retired by paramedics astatine the scene, and cleared. A mates of hours later, her caput truly hurt, truthful she was told to spell to the ER. She WALKED successful with her skull rather virtually not attached to her spine. In 99.9999999% of cases, that's instant death. How she managed to past galore hours with her caput detached from the remainder of her body, nary of america volition ever know."
23. "During my internship successful a section hospital, a 31-year-old antheral was shot, past dropped astatine the section ER by the aforesaid guys who changeable him. In total, helium had 10 gunshot wounds crossed his thorax, abdomen, pelvis, and legs. The bullets went done almost each azygous organ, and besides broke a femur and a tibia. Needless to say, helium was successful hypovolemic daze and needed exigency country and humor transfusions."
"Look, I cannot archer you however overmuch attraction has gone into his case. He spent 3 months successful the ICU, and he's present connected the Surgery level of the hospital. So far, he's had 25+ surgical interventions (and counting) from 3 antithetic teams and implicit 50 bags of blood. At 1 point, 1 of the teams realized they couldn't wholly adjacent his abdomen aft 1 peculiar surgery, and decided to permission his abdomen open. He's besides had aggregate infections, some nosocomial and from his ain digestive tract (one slug entered done the abdomen, pierced his rectum and exited done 1 of his buttcheeks, and during the healing process, the coiled became a fistula that continuously dripped pus and mucus riddled with bacteria successful and retired of the abdominal cavity), to the constituent helium fell into septic shock twice. Regular antibiotics weren't doing their occupation anymore, truthful Infectology had to beryllium called successful regularly arsenic helium needed — and inactive needs — 1 hellhole of an antibiotic cocktail.
Although he's inactive not wholly retired of the woods, astatine slightest the surgeons were capable to successfully adjacent his abdomen, his corruption is presently nether control, and his legs are yet healing properly. If you inquire me, he'll astir apt unrecorded (if the section gangs don't invade the infirmary and termination him earlier he's discharged, due to the fact that it astir happened with him a period into his stay)."
24. "In May of 2019, my dada got deed by a bid connected his bicycle; the constabulary study said it was going 80mph. When we got to the infirmary connected the archetypal day, the doctors fundamentally told america to hole for his death. His humor unit was dropping precise quickly, but they chopped a spread successful his stomach, and that seemed to stabilize things for the archetypal night. He woke up a fewer weeks aboriginal and had breached each his ribs connected the right; immoderate connected the left, some collar bones, his close arm, collapsed some lungs, and had a traumatic encephalon injury. After helium woke up successful the ICU, helium was acting beauteous wild. The doctors told america helium would ne'er instrumentality to his occupation oregon regain the level of quality helium had pre-accident."
"Eventually, helium near the ICU, went to the wide ward, and past 2 rehabs. He near the 2nd rehab early. By Aug 2019, helium went backmost to his occupation arsenic a VP. His code was inactive somewhat impaired astatine this time. In December 2019, helium bought a caller bike. As of today, helium seems wholly normal. Long shot, but if you were 1 of the archetypal responders for this accident, I would similar to convey you from the bottommost of my heart. Whatever you did connected that archetypal time astir apt ensured that helium got to live."
25. "A mates of months ago, I had a superior skydiving mishap successful which neither my superior nor reserve parachute opened properly: The reserve wasn't adjacent unfastened halfway. Ended up with a shattered femur, an open-book pelvis, a burst fracture connected my back, and immoderate breached ribs. I volition not beryllium skydiving again, but I volition beryllium capable to walk. My woman is simply a formation nurse, and her chap co-workers saved my beingness connected the helicopter."
26. "Had a STEMI diligent dormant connected the Cath laboratory array who was defibrillated 48 times. We said we would bash 1 more, past telephone it...49th shock, past Sinus rhythm. Dude was playing play 2 months later."
27. "We had a feline travel successful to the ER due to the fact that helium was feeling 'kind of dizzy and retired of breath.' They ordered a modular array of labs, and erstwhile the laboratory drew his blood, we noticed that his humor seemed truly bladed and watery. That was due to the fact that helium had A FUCKING 2.7 HEMOGLOBIN. For those of you who cognize hemoglobin values, I curse connected my parent that I americium telling the information that this antheral was some walking and conscious erstwhile helium came in. He adjacent argued astir being admitted overnight. We couldn't adjacent get his illustration to tally astatine first. We had to fuck with the sensors for it to register. For those of you who don't cognize hemoglobin values, it’s fundamentally measuring 'how overmuch humor is successful your blood,' and truthful however overmuch oxygen is susceptible of being carried passim your body. Normal hemoglobin is astir 12-16 oregon so, depending connected property and gender. Below 10 is wherever they commencement considering the anticipation of transfusion, and beneath 8 is considered critical. A 2.7 should beryllium dead."
28. "A person of excavation was successful a tractor mishap arsenic a kid. The tractor rolled, threw him from the seat, and past landed connected apical of him. Somehow, helium survived and went done astir a twelvemonth of country and carnal therapy. By the end, helium had to person his scalp, sternum, jaw, shins, and 1 of his forearms replaced with titanium."
"I called him a cyborg due to the fact that helium would amusement disconnected his titanium parts by having radical punch him successful the thorax oregon by shoving his caput done stuff. He ended up astatine the hospital, portion I knew him, due to the fact that idiosyncratic tried to combat him and broke their manus connected his skull. He took the feline to the infirmary since helium couldn't thrust himself."
29. "My wife, 47 years old, successful large signifier (walking 7 miles a day), complained of tummy cramps. Two days earlier Christmas, she came location and said she thought she had the flu and conscionable wanted to sleep. When she was changing, I noticed her swollen belly. Her mean washboard tummy looked 5 months pregnant. I took her to the ER arsenic 'that isn't right.'"
"The caregiver kept asking, 'How galore months pregnant?' She had a afloat hysterectomy, truthful that was not possible. Explained 'rapid alteration to her belly.' Fourteen hours passed, and we yet got her X-rays. Radiologist noted 'full of air.' She had a ruptured colon, and she conscionable said she 'didn't consciousness well.'
She was afloat septic. The ascending colon was removed, and an ileostomy was fitted. Sepsis unopen down everything, and her bosom kept pumping. She coded galore times successful recovery. Hospital folks would archer her she was the Christmas miracle. Still amazed she is inactive with maine 17 years later.
For the longest time, she kept asking her surgeon, 'What is the emblematic betterment time?' and helium deferred the question. She had an further 7 surgeries, truthful we got to cognize her surgeon, and he yet admitted, 'You're the lone 1 who survived a full septic shutdown.'"
30. "A fewer years back, a pack subordinate astir wherever I lived had his look changeable disconnected by a shotgun successful a shootout with police. The bull tried to blast his caput off, but the changeable got his little jaw, nose, teeth, etc. MF walks retired of that, past gets admitted to a hospital. And well, a mates of months later, a photograph of the dude, successful prison, surfaces online: Aside from flimsy scarring, the dude looks normal. Can't devour solids for a while, though."
31. "Hematologist present (I woody with leukemias/lymphomas, unexplained anemia, that benignant of stuff). My favourite communicative to archer is of a diligent — gonna telephone him Mr. X. Well, Mr. X is simply a 38-year-old diligent who presented with a swollen abdomen, utmost fatigue, peripheral edema, and aggregate enlarged lymph nodes. To overgarment a intelligence image, ideate a immense purple murphy with toothpicks for limbs and inflated gloves for hands — helium wasn't looking quality astatine all. After a lymph node biopsy, the diagnosis came: Hodgkin's Lymphoma (HL)."
"Now, HL is 1 of the fewer curable diseases if treated correctly (six to 8 rounds of chemotherapy); however, the subtype was alternatively assertive and with mediocre prognosis, truthful his chances were grim, to accidental the least. One people of chemo is astir a month, but seeing his presumption not improving aft 2 weeks (half a circular of chemo), helium wanted to beryllium discharged to 'die successful his furniture successful his home', truthful helium called his person to prime him up, and disconnected they went.
One period later, a healthy-looking antheral (fit, groomed) approached maine and told maine he'd similar to proceed the chemotherapy due to the fact that helium was feeling great. I had nary thought who I was talking to until helium introduced himself arsenic Mr. X. My jaw dropped to the floor, and I benignant of rushed to docket his adjacent rounds of chemo. I asked him what changed his caput astir staying, and helium told maine that connected the mode home, aft astir an hr connected the road, helium got a weird appetite, truthful helium asked his person to prime up astir a twelve cans of Spam* (the European equivalent astatine least), and helium conscionable devoured them connected the mode home. Seeing that, his person told him erstwhile they got home: 'Well, X, if you tin cram that crap successful your stomach, I'm beauteous definite you tin instrumentality astatine slightest 2 much rounds of chemo.' So determination helium was — the surviving impervious that Spam changes lives. So astatine the extremity of chemo (eight rounds), helium had what we telephone a 'Complete effect (CR)' — a CR that lasts to this time (five years later), beauteous overmuch equivalent to 'cured.'"
32. "Med pupil here. I've seen rather a fewer patients who tried to effort termination by shooting themselves successful the caput and failed for 1 crushed oregon another. Last 1 I saw, helium enactment a .22 firearm nether his chin and sent the slug consecutive up into his nasal cavity, missing the encephalon entirely. He was yet discharged (to a psych facility) aft lone spending astir 2 weeks successful the hospital."
33. "A babe was calved astatine 23 weeks — had unfastened bosom country 3 times, had NEC, and went into cardiac apprehension aft I had to springiness her CPR for implicit an hr to revive her. And she's presently 9 months adjusted now. NICU babies are truthful fucking beardown it's unbelievable sometimes."
34. "Fellow NICU nurse—we had a acceptable of triplets calved astatine 23 weeks, and aft aggregate encephalon bleeds/MSETs/meningitis among the 3 of them (basically they each had moments wherever the full unit/treatment squad was sure they wouldn’t marque it through), each 3 went location without oxygen and vessel feeding similar champions. Babies are truthful unbelievably resilient, it's incredible."
35. "Young antheral (early 20s), electrician, moving connected the extortion of a three-level caller location build. His brag didn't proviso harnessing, and helium fell onto a factual pad below. He broke each bony successful his face, some wrists, and 1 forearm. I didn’t conscionable him until 3 days aboriginal connected the orthopaedic ward, wherever the nurses were calling him 'the lad who lived' (one of the HP movies had not agelong agone travel out)."
36. "Wound attraction manager (nurse) specializing successful wounds for six years now. Two chaotic coiled stories patients shouldn’t person survived: Patient A was a regular lady, a small overweight, with immoderate mild hypertension, thing wild. Smart woman, worked a full-time occupation arsenic an aviation mechanic. Comes into my enactment with NF (necrotizing fasciitis): flesh-eating bacteria, deadly, gnarly shit. She had a 10% accidental of survival. Her peritoneum was wholly exposed. It had eaten her tegument and brushed tissues crossed her abdomen, each the mode crossed apical to bottom, astir her flanks, the tops of her thighs, the apical of her vagina, and nether her breasts. The coiled measured astir 70 cm × 120 cm with a extent of 7 cm oregon truthful successful immoderate parts."
"After galore months of coiled care, tegument grafts, and PT/OT, she walked close retired of the facility. Scarred, but wholly fine! All of it started from a bug bite/cut connected her tummy aft swimming successful 1 of the section lakes successful our state."
37. And here's the aforesaid nurse's 2nd story... "Patient B was a diligent suffering from terrible intelligence illness. She and her parent (who besides had intelligence unwellness issues) were surviving successful a motel. One day, Patient B got up and decided she conscionable 'wasn’t going to locomotion anymore.' She sat successful the motel seat for astir 45 days straight, urinating, defecating, not showering, etc., successful this chair. Literally lived and sat successful the aforesaid spot. Eventually, motel unit received complaints of foul smells, and they called the occurrence department. Her soma had rotted disconnected — a unit wounded that went necrotic — and was eaten distant by maggots successful that chair. When they lifted her off, her tegument had virtually liquified into that chair."
"For evident reasons, Patient B and her ma became APS (Adult Protective Services) cases, and they really became immoderate of my favourite patients for galore years! By the clip Patient B got to me, she had had aggregate debridement surgeries, and she was near with a imperishable colostomy and urostomy. Her coiled was astir 20-25cm deep. I could enactment my limb halfway up my forearm successful her coiled and determination it broadside to side. It was easy 60cm wide by 40cm successful length, sacral bony exposed bilaterally, with the bottommost 3-4 vertebrae exposed too. Both buttcheeks were gone; it was conscionable a precise heavy hole, musculus and bony astatine this point. In 1.5 years, her tegument grew backmost beautifully, though. What I recovered astonishing was the body's quality to turn backmost abstracted cheeks, LOL I cognize that mightiness dependable odd, but from wherever it was — a monolithic spread — to 2 decent cheeks...the assemblage ne'er ceases to amaze me!"
38. "When my hubby was diagnosed with leukemia, his achromatic humor compartment number was 260,000. Anything implicit 11,000 is considered high. The doctors said that helium should person been dead; they person nary thought however helium survived."
39. "I was a firefighter a portion agone and heard this from the EMTs. Basically, they had picked up an highly intoxicated autochthonal Alaskan feline wandering astir successful –30° successful shorts and a t-shirt. Turns retired he'd been wandering for hours and hours and had terrible hypothermia and should person been a popsicle. The kicker is that erstwhile they did a humor intoxicant test, helium was 3 times the bounds it takes to dice from intoxicant poisoning. They believed that the lone crushed helium didn't frost to decease was that the intoxicant acted similar antifreeze and stopped his soma from afloat freezing."
40. "My 12-year-old neighbour was deed by a bus. According to witnesses, helium flew a fewer meters successful the aerial and landed connected the street. When helium got to the ER, they did a fewer tests, sewed up immoderate cuts, and fto him spell THAT DAY."
41. "Patient here. Last year, I walked into the doctor's for a checkup and recovered that I had beauteous overmuch nary reddish humor cells. The doc kept maine successful the country for an hour, asking maine questions and wondering however I'd managed to locomotion to the bureau alone, overmuch little however I was lasting successful beforehand of her and not collapsed connected the floor. Apparently, I'd had SEVERE anemia for astir five-ish years and was conscionable surviving with it."
42. "Not a doc oregon nurse, but me. Run implicit by a dump truck. Two staph infections successful my lungs. 107.8 temp. Coma for 42 days. Heart stopped 3 times. I'm inactive here."
43. "When I was four, I had crab and managed to get chickenhearted pox from immoderate idiot's unvaccinated kids. The pox made my potassium level spell down to astir zero; the doctors had nary thought however I wasn't dead."
44. "I was a Phlebotomist during COVID. I watched sixish radical dice successful 1 azygous play successful my ICU mornings. I was affable with some. There was 1 feline left. I tin inactive spot his face. For 2 months, I drew his humor and his wife's (non-ICU COVID) for a month. I watched him get intubated, extubated, and reintubated. I retrieve telling his woman immoderate I could that wouldn't upset her. 'Oh, his humor unit was astir mean today!' 'Oh, his humor was truthful casual to gully today!' 'The humor thinners look to beryllium helping lately.' Just not a lie, but not an affirmation. I'd speech to him portion helium was retired and archer him astir his wife, however bully and fantastic she was, and however helium had to support going origin she truly missed him. Everyone thought helium would dice similar the rest."
He coded doubly astatine slightest during my shift. And helium was lone extubated for a fewer days due to the fact that helium was conscionable truly struggling. One day, I travel successful aft a play off, and he's not there. I panicked and was told helium had been moved to the archetypal floor, which was connected my mode to my greeting routine. He was sitting up successful furniture chatting with maine aft 2 weeks. I told him astir his wife, and thing helium asked that I was legally allowed to archer him. He walked retired of the infirmary connected his own."
45. "A buddy was riding shotgun, and the operator swerved to miss a deer. The car went disconnected the roadworthy into immoderate trees; my buddy had his limb retired the window, and erstwhile they passed a tree, it shredded his arm. They crashed into different tree, and his femur was shattered. The EMTs got there, and my buddy PICKED HIS OWN ARM UP OFF THE GROUND and handed it to the EMT, saying, 'I mightiness request this.' He proceeded to measurement into the ambulance. Turns retired helium didn't request it due to the fact that it was shredded truthful severely and had been disconnected his assemblage for truthful agelong that it was unsalvageable. The dude mislaid truthful overmuch blood, helium said it sounded similar a descend running."
46. "This was astatine a VA Hospital successful Oklahoma City, Winter 1986. A 68-year-old antheral went into cardiac apprehension connected the Med-Surg floor, and Code Blue was called. Another second-year nonmigratory and I arrived connected the country with our interns and astir apt 20 aesculapian students. Everyone got progressive and had a accidental to bash CPR. Every medicine successful the clang cart was used. After 60 minutes (much longer than a codification would usually beryllium run), we were conscionable showing disconnected our cognition and skills to our aesculapian students. Seeing a anemic pulseless rhythm, I decided to bash a pericardiocentesis (draw fluid from the sac astir the bosom arsenic attraction for a imaginable tamponade). I removed astir 20-25 cc of a wide fluid done a six-inch needle. The different nonmigratory said to me, 'That wasn't capable to bash anything.' Immediately, we had a measurable humor pressure, and the diligent was sent to the ICU."
"Over a twelvemonth later, I was caring for a precise sick pistillate astatine University Hospital crossed the street. Her well-dressed, articulate begetter came by to sojourn her, and we got to talking. He said, 'I was truly sick astatine the VA astir a twelvemonth ago, and those doctors saved my life.' I realized it was the aforesaid antheral and was gladsome we hadn't fixed up excessively soon. Ya ne'er know!"
47. And finally, we'll extremity connected this agelong story:
"Back successful 2008, I was a elder successful precocious school. One day, my ma started complaining of a headache. She was delicate to light. She didn't truly person an appetite. And she said keeping her eyes closed helped. This went connected for astir 2 days earlier she decided to spell to the ER. The doc astatine the ER told her she conscionable had a caput cold. A time later, she started getting worse. We took her backmost to the ER, and she saw the aforesaid ER doc again. Once again, helium told her she conscionable had a terrible caput cold. So again, we took her backmost home. Even though she was successful large pain, she inactive got up and walked connected her ain and talked normally.
A time oregon truthful later, she was conscionable getting worse and worse. Finally, we talked her into going backmost to the ER. This clip we saw a antithetic doctor. He instantly wanted her to bash a CT scan. He said she had a burst encephalon aneurysm heavy successful her encephalon and that her encephalon was, successful fact, bleeding connected the inside. He was arsenic airy arsenic a shade due to the fact that helium said he'd ne'er seen oregon heard of anyone surviving with a burst encephalon aneurysm. He couldn't judge she was up walking astir and inactive talking. He told america she should beryllium dead. We were successful shock. My parent has been dealing with this FOR A WHOLE WEEK.
The doc and nurses prepared my ma to beryllium taken by chopper up to OKC to spot 1 of the champion encephalon surgeons successful the authorities and person contiguous encephalon surgery. However, erstwhile they got her to OKC, she ended up having a monolithic stroke. (This is what they were trying to debar happening.) The changeable affected her vocal cords and the close broadside of her body. Once again, she lived done each of that. And she inactive hadn't had her encephalon surgery. Once the encephalon surgeon explained to america however this country was going to go, my dada had to motion a insubstantial giving his consent that it was good for my ma to beryllium 'legally dead' for conscionable a fewer minutes portion the surgeon clips this bleeding aneurysm successful her brain. It was the lone option, considering helium had to spell heavy successful her brain. The surgeon had the means to bring her backmost to beingness erstwhile helium finished the procedure. She made it done the eight-hour country truthful beautifully.
My parent had to beryllium successful the ICU for implicit a month. Then she went to 2 antithetic rehab facilities and larn to locomotion again. The doctors each told america she mightiness not marque it 5 years aft she had her encephalon surgery. Fourteen years later, she's inactive present and doing amended than ever. She walks and exercises each day. She does everything for herself. She cooks, cleans, and tin adjacent drive! Her dependable isn't 100 percent, but I tin recognize her conscionable fine. Her wellness has ne'er been better!"
What's your "I should person died but didn't" story? Let america cognize successful the comments below!
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