August 31, 2011
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Final Destination IRL?
“Leroy Luetscher was working in his back garden when he dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed point-side down in the ground.
When Luetscher went to pick them up, he lost his balance and fell face-down on the handle. The handle penetrated his eye socket and went down into his neck, resting on the external carotid artery. Half the shears were left in his head, while the other half was sticking out.
An X-ray of Mr Luetscher’s head showed the severity of the injury.
“You wouldn’t believe your eyes,” said doctor Julie Wynne.
Mr Luetscher was rushed to the hospital, where surgeons removed the shears and rebuilt his orbital floor with metal mesh, saving his eye.
Doctors say Mr Luetscher still has slight swelling in his eyelids and minor double vision but has otherwise recovered.
He has thanked the doctors at the University Medical Center for their remarkable work”
This reminds me of A patient I saw in the ED as a med student who had fallen out of a tree and taken a chainsaw to the face. People are surprisingly resilient and gardening is horribly dangerous. life lessons…
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Yay reconstructive surgery!
my husband once saw a guy who got drunk in the middle of the night and started playing catch with a buddy… with a chainsaw… that was running. he nearly CUT OFF HIS HEAD. amazingly, he came within millimeters of cutting anything crucial and will live to drink and be stupid again.
Oh, my my. I just used a pair this morning. I will be more careful in the future after reading this.
Why I admire doctors and try to treat them with respect. I could never handle such a case.