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There was story on the news a while back about a guy who crashed his truck into a river. It was freezing cold and he was floating face down in it for 20 minutes before the medics got there. Once there they tied a rope to him and tried pulling him in but the current was too strong and he started going down stream.
A fire fighter jumped in and stopped him from being swept away. The firefighter had the guy pinned between his leg completely submerged for over 10 minutes. By the time they got the guy out his skin was frozen solid.
His body temperature dropped like 80%. It wasn't thought he would die from this, it was known.
A doctor in the nearby hospital had created a new machine and the family let him try it out. The machine takes the blood from your body and warms it and the cycles it back into your blood stream. The man was alive but in acoma. Three weeks went by and the guys sister who was a nurse started to ask why they were keeping him alive since the cold and lack of oxygen had most definetly damaged his brain beyond repair.
And just as she was saying goodbye for the weekend the guy lifted his chin to recieve her kiss.
A few days later he woke up not knowing where he was. The TV was on and the news was showing his car accident. The first thing he saw was himself floating upside down in the frozen water and he watched as the firefighter almost got swept away trying to save him.
He literally woke of from certain death to watch him self dieing on TV.
He eventually made a full recovery.
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