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easttnfjr

you seen some cool shit. :clap: don't see all that trauma in the MICU I'm a nurse in :cry:

Impressive ass post in the pic. but the girl is hot :D

 
Real pic...left leg cyanosed due to poor circulation as great lump of wood in putting pressure on the leg's major vessels. And yes it is survivable you would be surprised what people get themselves into and survive, some for a while and some for a life time.

Expressions on the faces of the attending medical staff tells it all. Speedfreak I am not as skeptical as some are here... been there done that. :D

 
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I can believe it happened, but something tells me that the body was held in a stable position while the pole penetrated it. You will have a hard time convincing me that a body flew through the air and ended up in that condition. If a body had been flying through the air fast enough to cause that type of penetration, it seems the body would have pretty well disintegrated on impact unless the pole was sharply pointed on the business end. But it is an ugly mess. I suspect I would prefer moving on to the next life to recovering from such a mess. :bad:

 
Plain Dave, according to Snopes you are right, the guy was driving a truck and therefore in a "fixed" position. If he were on a bike I think you'd expect to see very different and more wide spread injuries.

Don't think I'd be too happy about surviving an accidient like this one given the injuries that easttnfjr suggests - stuffed spine, no leg, no sex, no shit...etc Thank god for paramedics, trauma nurses and doctors who deal with these accidents.

 
What BS?
I was honest. My sister is a nurse - fact (in WA state)

She did not work on him - fact (Could not she was in Wa state!)

She was on duty - fact (Nurse in the neonatial care unit)

Just trying to add credibility to the picture.

The point of the thread was "Testament to Modern Medicine" in the fact that the guy survived - Simply incredible.

-=SF=-
SpeedFreak -

Didn't intend to question whether your sister was a nurse, etc. It's just that in my reading of your first follow-up post

sure are a bunch of non believers. It's not photoshopped, the picture came from my sister who is an ER nurse. She did not work on him but was on duty working
You seemed to be implying that this happened at the hospital where your sister worked. Otheres seem to have made the same mistake. This looked like a classic "urban legend" - hence my search on snopes.

According to snopes.com ( https://www.snopes.com/photos/gruesome/splinter.asp )

this picture, and story, have been running around the internet since March of 2004

Here's the text of the SNOPES entry:



OUCH: READ THIS STORY THEN LOOK AT THE PICTURE!!!!!!!!

[The story]

Below is an actual emergency room photo of a gentleman who lost control of his motorcycle on a country road in West Virginia. Troopers believe that he was traveling at a speed of approximately 75 mph at the time of the accident. He was unable to negotiate a curve in the road.

Unfortunately for him, upon striking the ditch and being ejected from the bike, he landed back end first on a fencepost from an old barnyard fenced that was downed on the side of the road. You can probably picture what happened next, but the attached picture really says it all. The good news is that after about 6 months, this man made a full recovery after suffering a shattered hip, broken leg, several broken ribs, internal injuries and "soft tissue" damage. Doctors credited his recovery to the fact that the post lodged itself so tightly that there was little or no blood loss.

[Origins]

The photograph referenced by the above text (which can be found on various sites around the web by searching on phrases such as "gentleman who lost control of his motorcycle") is evidently genuine, although the explanation that now accompanies it is possibly an invented one. This picture first began circulating in March 2004 under the title "Lesson Painfully Learned" and at that time bore no text to explain its putative origins; the motorcycle accident scenario quoted above did not begin to circulate with the photographs until many months later.

Back in 2004 an informant told us that the photograph originated in the trauma bay of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences' (UAMS) emergency room. According to this source, the patient shown in the photo crashed his truck through a fence, causing a large fence post to come through part of the truck's engine and firewall before catching on spring wire in the back of the front seat, impaling the driver in the process. The patient was reportedly treated in the operating room but died a few days later of infection. We have not been able to independently verify these details, however.

(A google search on the exact phrase "gentleman who lost control of his motorcycle" will confirm the widespread distribution of the photo and story)

I'm not surprised that your sister (an ER nurse) would have rec'd this photo and story -- looking at a few of the sites that google finds, it's also spread around a lot by firefighers and cops - folks who see gruesome stuff all too often, and need to believe that they have at least a chance to save 'em all (or at least any one of 'em on any given day) in order to keep doing the job effectively.

(and MC types who have to beware of the crazy 'cagers' everytime we go for a ride)

FM

 
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