 |
| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
fluffle9 Great Old One Joined: 01 May 2004 Total posts: 979 Location: somewhere over the rainbow Age: 30 Gender: Female |
 Posted: 24-06-2004 16:32 Post subject: |
 |
|
|
i think facial injuries attract particular attention because the face is such an important part of one's body image. it's the first part of a person's body that you look at (unless you're male and the person you're looking at is female and busty!), and obviously it's the part of a person you remember, so everybody dreads a facial disfigurement because it will completely change the way people think of them.
of course injuries to the brain can change a person in ways you could never imagine, so i think they are also especially frightening. |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4085 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 24-06-2004 23:24 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| That x-ray of the harpoon in that boy's head is astonishing. It is a wonder he survived. Interesting to note that the man who fired the harpoon gun had already been stabbed close to the heart prior to him firing the gun in apparent self-defence. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4085 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 22-07-2004 16:33 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: |
Afghan girl in Japan for surgery
A 13-year-old Afghan girl reported to have a bullet lodged in her head for eight years has arrived in Japan for life-saving medical treatment.
Fatema Safar was hit during a gun battle in Kabul, her family say, as the hardline Islamic Taleban movement took control of the city.
Doctors say a 3cm bullet (1.2in) is embedded near the top of her nose.
It is corroding and could kill her unless it is removed, according to the Tokyo-based charity helping her.
Fatema has been admitted to hospital and will be operated on next Wednesday.
She has been suffering from chronic headaches since she was shot, and has lost the sight in her left eye, a spokesperson from the charity, Aid for War Orphans in Asia, says.
"I am very grateful to the Japanese people for bringing me here," she said, according to the charity.
Fatema, who is accompanied by her mother, is due to stay in Japan until September.
Aid for War Orphans in Asia helped raise the 8m yen (,000) needed to pay for her operation there, as no neurosurgeon was available in Afghanistan, AFP news agency reported.
The bullet was only discovered when Fatema had an X-ray last May, the agency says.
She is not expected to regain her lost vision.
|
BBCi News 22/07/04 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| lopaka3 Great Old One Joined: 17 Sep 2001 Total posts: 2154 Location: Near the corner of a Big Continent Gender: Male |
| Posted: 31-07-2004 05:35 Post subject: It's all in your neck? |
|
|
|
There doesn't seem to be a *right* thread for this. Mods: move as you see fit. -lopaka
Florida boy survives arrow in neck
Friday, July 30, 2004 Posted: 6:07 PM EDT (2207 GMT)
WEST MELBOURNE, Florida (AP) -- A 7-year-old boy fell on an arrow and was impaled in the neck, narrowly missing his jugular vein, officials said.
The father of the boy, whose name was not released, drove him 30 miles to a fire station for help. The boy was hospitalized in stable condition after Thursday's accident and was expected to survive, the Osceola County Sheriff's Office said.
The boy fell while holding the arrow and playing in his backyard in rural central Florida, his father told paramedics.
After piercing his neck near the jugular vein, the arrow nearly passed all the way through to the boy's spine, said Lt. Dave Hover of the Brevard County Fire Rescue's Station where the boy went for emergency treatment.
Firefighters cut about 6 inches off the arrow so he could be flown to an Orlando hospital.
Copyright 2004 The Associated Press.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/South/07/30/boy.impaled.ap/index.html |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| TheQuixote Joined: 25 Sep 2003 Total posts: 4085 Gender: Female |
| Posted: 28-09-2004 12:44 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: |
Man impaled in head by steel rod
A man is undergoing emergency surgery after an 8ft (2.4m) steel rod pierced his eye and became stuck in his head.
The accident happened at 0320 BST on Tuesday as he worked overnight at an Argos store in Foster Square, Bradford.
Firefighters had to cut the rod down to 3ft to allow an ambulance crew to take the 30-year-old to hospital for the emergency operation.
The man was conscious throughout his ordeal, a West Yorkshire Ambulance Service spokesman said.
Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/3695918.stm
Published: 2004/09/28 06:15:44 GMT
© BBC MMIV
|
 |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 03-12-2004 03:11 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: | Man Impaled by 6-Inch Hook Through Skull
Dec 2, 5:19 PM (ET)
SAN ANTONIO (AP) - A 6-inch hook was embedded in a man's skull in an accident at a heavy equipment dealership Thursday, but he was in stable condition despite still having a portion of the hook in his head, authorities said.
Rescuers needed about two hours to free the hook from the front-end loader it had been attached to at Holt Caterpillar, then flew the man to University Hospital. Rescue workers said the man was conscious and talking.
Holt is the largest U.S. Caterpillar equipment dealer and sells, rents, leases and services new and used Caterpillar equipment, engines and generator sets in stores stretching from the Rio Grande to the Red River, many located along the Interstate 35 corridor.
The men's identity wasn't released. |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| lopaka3 Great Old One Joined: 17 Sep 2001 Total posts: 2154 Location: Near the corner of a Big Continent Gender: Male |
| Posted: 07-12-2004 15:09 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: |
Woman Survives Being Impaled by Metal Rod
ANDERSON, Ind. (AP) - A woman survived being impaled by a 12-foot metal fence post that pierced through her mouth and came out the back of her neck in a car accident, authorities said.
Emergency crews had to saw off part of the 1 1/2-inch thick fence rail to free Alejandra Martinez, who was still awake when crews arrived at the scene. Fire officials were shocked to find her alive.
``Talk about having an angel as a co-pilot,'' Fire Chief J.R. Rosencrans said. ``On her rearview mirror she had a picture of the Madonna. You can tell she is a religious person.''
Martinez, 28, was in critical condition late Monday, recovering from surgery, officials said.
Earlier Monday, Martinez drove through a stop sign at an intersection and hit another car, Anderson police spokesman Terry Sollars said. She then lost control, careened off the road and went through a chain-link fence.
The car hit a concrete porch, shoving it three feet back, Sollars said. The metal rod from the fence went through the driver's side of the windshield, he said.
A passenger in the back seat was not injured.
Anderson is about 35 miles northeast of Indianapolis.
12/07/04 06:26
© Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
|
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 08-12-2004 14:07 Post subject: |
|
|
|
The end of a similar report on the above:
| Quote: | Anderson Fire Department Battalion Chief Larry Towne said he was shocked to find Martinez alive and awake.
“Talk about having an angel as a co-pilot,” Fire Chief J.R. Rosencrans told The Herald Bulletin. “On her rearview mirror she had a picture of the Madonna. You can tell she is a religious person.”
Towne said Martinez was in shock but calm.
“She never complained, whined, didn’t hardly say anything. That helped to keep the air around the scene calm.”
An emergency room doctor treated Martinez while fire crews tried to extricate her, police said.
Her daughter, Elizabeth Diaz Martinez, said she, her parents, brother and sister moved to Anderson more than two years ago from Mexico. |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-12-2004 02:05 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: | Headache nailed
Seoul - Anx-ray showing a 5cm nail stuck in an unidentified South Korean patient's skull. A Seoul hospital said the man had complained of severe headaches. They speculated that the nail had been in his head for four years, although he never knew it. Surgeons have removed the nail. |
Source
Also |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| lopaka3 Great Old One Joined: 17 Sep 2001 Total posts: 2154 Location: Near the corner of a Big Continent Gender: Male |
| Posted: 17-01-2005 04:17 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: |
Man Finds Nail in Skull Six Days Later
By ERIN GARTNER
LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.
A nail gun backfired on Lawler, 23, on Jan. 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.
Following the accident, Lawler had what he thought was a minor toothache and blurry vision. On Wednesday, after painkillers and ice didn't ease the pain, he went to a dental office where his wife, Katerina, works.
``We all are friends, so I thought the (dentists) were joking ... then the doctor came out and said 'There's really a nail,''' Katerina Lawler said. ``Patrick just broke down. I mean, he had been eating ice cream to help the swelling.''
He was taken to a suburban Denver hospital, where he underwent a four-hour surgery. The nail had plunged 1 1/2 inches into his brain, barely missing his right eye, Metcalse said.
``This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been imbedded in their skull,'' neurosurgeon Sean Markey told KUSA-TV in Denver. ``But it's a pretty rare injury.''
Lawler was recovering Sunday in the hospital, where he was expected to spend several more days.
Despite his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $80,000 and $100,000, Katerina Lawler said her husband is in good spirits.
``The doctors said, 'If you're going to have a nail in the brain, that's the way you want it to be,''' she said. ``He's the luckiest guy, ever.''
01/16/05 16:37
© Copyright The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
|
http://cnn.netscape.cnn.com/news/story.jsp?idq=/ff/story/0001/20050116/1637481025.htm |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 09-02-2005 05:18 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: | Man finds mystery nail in his neck
Feb. 8, 2005 — Talk about a pain in the neck.
Steve Villagomez, a 29-year-old football coach in California, thought he injured his neck during a football practice this past summer and visited a doctor. An X-ray revealed he had what appeared to be a metal object lodged in his neck.
Having no idea how metal would get in his neck, Villagomez thought the diagnosis must be incorrect and ignored it.
"I thought, there's no way," he said Tuesday on "Good Morning America." "I didn't believe the pictures."
The Magnet Test
Fast forward to October, when Villagomez was telling some of his fellow coaches about the bizarre X-ray. The head coach, whom Villagomez describes as a "real joker," suggested putting a magnet to his neck to test the diagnosis.
Villagomez took the head coach's advice and began experiencing pain in his jaw and neck, so he visited another doctor, who confirmed the original diagnosis. Villagomez had a foreign object lodged in his neck and was referred to Dr. Paul Yun, an ear, nose and throat specialist.
A Rusty Nail Is Extracted
Yun was stunned when he examined Villagomez's X-rays. "I thought it was a joke, some sort of gag," Yun told "Good Morning America." "It was a very strange X-ray."
After convincing Villagomez he should have the object removed, Yun operated and extracted a nearly two-inch-long rusty nail from Villagomez's neck.
Despite the fact that the nail could have been lodged in his neck anywhere from six months to several years, Villagomez had experienced no pain or complications from it, outside of the incident during the summer.
"It looks like it could have been there a few years," said Villagomez. "I just never noticed it."
Yun says Villagomez was extremely lucky the nail was lodged where it was. "It was probably the only place in his neck it could hide without causing any problems," he said.
Medical Mystery
The most baffling part of the incident is that Villagomez says he has absolutely no idea how the nail got there.
--------------
"I have no clue," he said, though he added that he worked at an equipment rental store nearly a decade ago. "The place I used to work used to rent out nail guns, but I never got hit with one."
Yun said there is no way Villagomez could have swallowed the nail and also has no explanation for how it may have gotten in his neck. "I hadn't seen anything like that before," he said.
The story, though mysterious, ends well for Villagomez. The surgery to remove the nail was straightforward — he is healing and has experienced no complications.
An added bonus is that Villagomez has become a minor celebrity among middle-school students he coaches and his 9-year-old son, who all think the nail is extremely cool. |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 21-03-2005 16:59 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: | Five inch knife found in man's head
Hospital staff treating a retired school teacher for a headache found a five inch knife blade wedged in his head.
A headteacher from Poland went to the doctors suffering from a headache, following X-rays hospital staff found a knife embedded in his head /Freelance
The discovery was made after doctors X-rayed Leonard Woronowicz to see if he had cracked his skull in a fall while climbing over a stool in his kitchen four days earlier.
Instead they found a blade that had penetrated the 61-year-old's head just below his right ear. It had snapped off at the handle without touching any major blood vessels or nerves - or causing any lasting damage.
He said: "I thought they might give me an aspirin, instead they pulled a five inch knife blade out of my head."
Woronowicz, from the Polish town of Wojnowice, said he had tripped over the stool while doing work in his kitchen.
He said: "I had some tools and other gadgets scattered on the kitchen floor where I had been doing the work when I tripped. The blade from the kitchen knife must have pierced my head then. My head hurt a bit, but I was convinced that it was from the fall. There was a small gash on the side of my head near my ear, but I thought it would soon heal and did not make much of it. I put a plaster on it and left it."
He added: "I didn't even guess what had happened when the next day I wanted to cut a piece of bread but couldn't find the kitchen knife. Despite carefully searching the room I could only find the handle. But I forgot about it as my headaches got worse over the next few days, and I decided to go to a hospital."
Local doctors were bewildered at the sight of the X-ray pictures and immediately called for an ambulance to take the patient to the Bialystok regional centre hospital in Northern Poland.
Surgeons pulled the five inch blade out of his skull in an operation that took just a few minutes. The blade had gone into his head from the side near his right ear.
Dr Marek Rogowski from the Bialystok hospital said a surgeon could not have made a better job of placing the knife so that it missed all vital bones, nerves and blood vessels. He said: "We have found objects in patients' bodies before, but this is unprecedented." |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| citizencane rosebud
Great Old One Gender: Male |
| Posted: 24-03-2005 06:11 Post subject: |
|
|
|
As for the story of the needles being in the mans skull for possibly many years, this reminds me of a book I once had that dealt with various cultures and thier "curses & hexes" they used.
Among certain gypsy tribes and even voodoo(vodue) a common way to "curse" someones offspring was to surrepticiously push needles into the soft spot of an infants head,which often resulted in the child not developing normal intelligence ,or being mysteriously and chronicly ill for years or even dying from an infection while still an infant ,depending on whether the needles were treated with some type of chemistry or even just filth.
It ws kept secret for generations and was one of the "family curses" their bloodline could inflict on their enemies.
This was of course done before X-Rays and other advances in medicine had been discoverd. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 25-04-2005 03:14 Post subject: |
|
|
|
OK I know this is from Pravda but they go one step further than usual and show pictures and what pictures!! Ouch.
| Quote: | Doctors remove kitchen knife from man's face
04/22/2005 16:23
Attempted murder ended only with a small scar on the man's face
A hospital nurse of the Russian village of Zaton heard someone knocking on her door late at night. When the woman opened the door, she could not say a word: her neighbor, Arthur Javanyan, was standing in the doorway. There was a knife sticking out of the young man's head: the blade was plunged in the skull almost entirely. The nurse called an ambulance immediately.
An hour later the young man was lying on the operating table with a group of surgeons around.
"It was an absolutely extraordinary incident. The extraction of the knife from the man's head could result in abundant bleeding, but we could not hesitate or keep on thinking of all variants that we could use for the operation. The blade of the knife was ten centimeters deep underneath the eye. It pierced through the zygomatic bone and rested against the back of the maxillary sinus. Such a wound posed a real threat for purulent maxillary sinusitis to develop," chief surgeon of the local hospital, Viktor Tolstenko said.
It took about 40 minutes for the unique operation to last. When everything was over, doctors said that Arthur had been born under a lucky star. "If the 35-centimeter long knife had gone right in the eye and damaged facial nerves, it would have led to lamentable consequences. All that Arthur has now is just a little scar on his cheek," Dr. Tolstenko.
The horrible incident happened at night, when Arthur was sleeping. The day before Arthur had a meeting with a friend of his, whom he had not seen for several years. Arthur invited him to his house and the men had a little alcohol. As the men were talking, Arthur's friend started complaining of bad life and never-ending troubles. Arthur told the guest not to hurry and work harder for things. The friend apparently did not like the advice, and the conversation took the form of a squabble.
Arthur cleaned the table and went to bed. An hour later he woke up because of terrible pain.
"At first I could not understand anything. I turned the light on, came up to the mirror and my jaw dropped with horror. I rushed to see where my friend was, but he was not in my apartment," Arthur said.
The young man is not going to file a police report against his treacherous friend. He said that he would settle scores with him later. |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
| Mighty_Emperor Divine Wind
Joined: 18 Aug 2002 Total posts: 19943 Location: Mongo Age: 42 Gender: Male |
| Posted: 10-05-2005 04:39 Post subject: |
|
|
|
| Quote: | 17 years later, man has bullet removed from head
Associated Press
May. 4, 2005 07:30 AM
DETROIT - It is no longer technically correct to refer to Chuck Smith as Bullethead. The warehouse worker from Detroit picked up the nickname after being shot in the head by unknown assailants while changing a tire in the summer of 1988. He left the chunk of lead lodged against his skull when a doctor said it would not pose a danger.
"I just didn't see a need to get it out," Smith said.
But Smith, now 41, had the .22-caliber bullet removed last week, after experiencing recurring headaches, numbness and tingling for several days.
Doctors inserted needles to anesthetize him before extracting the slug, which came out flattened and black and slightly smaller than a pencil eraser.
"That bullet felt better going in than coming out," Smith said, smiling. |
Source |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group
|
FAQ
Search
Memberlist
Usergroups
Profile
Log in to check your private messages
