"Typical" Dead Man wakes up...goes home.

W.M.DEEEZ · 03-25-2008, 05:38 AM

Man declared dead feels 'pretty good' - Yahoo! News

As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.

Scary, is the part where he claims he heard the doctor pronounce him dead....

Refuge51 · 03-25-2008, 01:25 PM

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Originally Posted by W.M.DEEEZ

Man declared dead feels 'pretty good' - Yahoo! News

As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.

Scary, is the part where he claims he heard the doctor pronounce him dead....

What's really scary is how many other 'brain dead' victims have had their organs harvested and felt it?!

Vicariously I · 03-26-2008, 06:34 AM

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.

Refuge51 · 03-26-2008, 08:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Vicariously I

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.

What an intriguing and remarkable story! Thanks for posting that.

W.M.DEEEZ · 03-26-2008, 08:58 AM

I seem to remember that the colder you are...the better...slows down brain activity.

I believe they lower your body temp on purpose, to prevent brain damage...

Cardio Pick-Me-Up - Forbes.com

They turned to cooling. There is a growing acceptance among doctors throughout the U.S. that cooling a patient's body temperature can reduce brain damage as well as other bodily damage. When Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett suffered a severe spinal cord injury last month, ice cold saline was pumped into his veins to lower his body temperature, according to news reports. Although patient privacy rules have made details scarce, doctors are speculating that the cooling may have helped protect Everett's spinal cord. Other early studies have shown that bringing down body temperature helps patients who've suffered from heart attacks and strokes

W.M.DEEEZ · 03-26-2008, 08:59 AM

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Originally Posted by Refuge51

What's really scary is how many other 'brain dead' victims have had their organs harvested and felt it?!

My GF's daughter loves horror flicks.

A few months ago, they were watching one where a psycho drugs his victims....aware, but paralyzed...and harvests their organs for the black market.

Refuge51 · 03-26-2008, 02:34 PM

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Originally Posted by W.M.DEEEZ

My GF's daughter loves horror flicks.

A few months ago, they were watching one where a psycho drugs his victims....aware, but paralyzed...and harvests their organs for the black market.

Oh gee.. thanks for the nightmares

Vicariously I · 03-27-2008, 11:49 AM

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Originally Posted by W.M.DEEEZ

I seem to remember that the colder you are...the better...slows down brain activity.

I believe they lower your body temp on purpose, to prevent brain damage...

Cardio Pick-Me-Up - Forbes.com

They turned to cooling. There is a growing acceptance among doctors throughout the U.S. that cooling a patient's body temperature can reduce brain damage as well as other bodily damage. When Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett suffered a severe spinal cord injury last month, ice cold saline was pumped into his veins to lower his body temperature, according to news reports. Although patient privacy rules have made details scarce, doctors are speculating that the cooling may have helped protect Everett's spinal cord. Other early studies have shown that bringing down body temperature helps patients who've suffered from heart attacks and strokes

I think it had something to do with hypothermia but mainly they were worried about the lack of oxygen to the brain. In any case his brain was affected as he had to go through some therapy but he eventually made a full recovery.

How crazy would it be though to wake up in a hospital not knowing how you got there and see you body floating lifeless in a river on the TV?

leftparadise · 03-31-2008, 07:13 AM

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Originally Posted by W.M.DEEEZ

I seem to remember that the colder you are...the better...slows down brain activity.

I believe they lower your body temp on purpose, to prevent brain damage...

Cardio Pick-Me-Up - Forbes.com

They turned to cooling. There is a growing acceptance among doctors throughout the U.S. that cooling a patient's body temperature can reduce brain damage as well as other bodily damage. When Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett suffered a severe spinal cord injury last month, ice cold saline was pumped into his veins to lower his body temperature, according to news reports. Although patient privacy rules have made details scarce, doctors are speculating that the cooling may have helped protect Everett's spinal cord. Other early studies have shown that bringing down body temperature helps patients who've suffered from heart attacks and strokes

old news - this was a M*A*S*H episode 25 years ago - i guy with a hole in his chest and hawkeye applies pressure and they have to find a graft in x number of minutes before the loss of blood to the brain is fatal and they ice the patient to buy more time.

W.M.DEEEZ · 03-31-2008, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by leftparadise

old news - this was a M*A*S*H episode 25 years ago - i guy with a hole in his chest and hawkeye applies pressure and they have to find a graft in x number of minutes before the loss of blood to the brain is fatal and they ice the patient to buy more time.

I did watch Mash back then, but I don't remember that episode.

I think I first became aware a few years ago when a young child fell through the ice, and was under for quite some time. He ultimately made a full recovery, and there was much discussion about the fact that those who "drown" in the winter have a much better chance than those who suffer a similar fate in the summer.

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W.M.DEEEZ I don't exist either Join Date: Oct 2007 Posts: 1,430 Thanks: 4 Thanked 40 Times in 29 Posts	I seem to remember that the colder you are...the better...slows down brain activity. I believe they lower your body temp on purpose, to prevent brain damage... Cardio Pick-Me-Up - Forbes.com They turned to cooling. There is a growing acceptance among doctors throughout the U.S. that cooling a patient's body temperature can reduce brain damage as well as other bodily damage. When Buffalo Bills football player Kevin Everett suffered a severe spinal cord injury last month, ice cold saline was pumped into his veins to lower his body temperature, according to news reports. Although patient privacy rules have made details scarce, doctors are speculating that the cooling may have helped protect Everett's spinal cord. Other early studies have shown that bringing down body temperature helps patients who've suffered from heart attacks and strokes __________________ Don't it always seem to go, that you don't know what you've got til it's gone
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