“It took us a few minutes to find his scalp in the car. The hospital just stapled it back on.”

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"The kid was fully oriented and awake, and besides the rebar skewer, was uninjured. After the survey and imaging were complete, the trauma attending made the decision to head straight up to the OR. I work in the ER, so everything from there on in was secondhand.

Three firefighters scrubbed into the OR, and they brought a special saw that can cut the steel without creating sparks and igniting the oxygen. The saw immediately malfunctioned, and the trauma surgeons decided that rather than cut the metal, they'd cut the patient. They 'de-roofed' the rebar, essentially slicing the top off the skin tunnel, and lifted the bar out.

This five-foot steel spike missed every bone, every major blood vessel, and every organ, not to mention missing his gentleman's sausage. The kid spent two days in the hospital and walked out on his own."

"The family was able to have one last goodbye before she actually died."

"Meth man ended up with hundreds of deep lacerations all over his body. Head, arms, torso...You could see fat, muscle, and bone. On-the-run guy cut his tendons; meth man couldn't move some of his body anymore. Yet somehow he made it to the hospital conscious and ok. The only arterial bleed he had was if he flexed his left wrist; suddenly, there'd be a spurt of blood.

It was just a coppery stink of blood all through the emergency room. Meth man ended up waiting for an air ambulance for about six hours, then got lifted out.

On-the-run guy ended up with a depressed skull fracture, but was really ok in the end.

"The two items next to her were her eyeballs…both of them, complete enucleation. She had forcibly removed both her eyeballs. No other objects were found. We think she did it with just her fingers.

The paramedics brought her eyes with her, in little saline bottles. You could see the optic nerve coming out the back, and the little attachment points of the extraocular muscles that help turn the eye in different directions were visible as well.

A clear liquid was seen running down her cheeks. I initially thought the liquid was tears, but it was cerebral spinal fluid leaking out of the little holes in the back of the eye socket where the optic nerve enters the brain.

Turns out she had schizophrenia and (we believe) read a bible passage that mentioned something about 'if your eyes cause you to sin, you should gouge them out' (or something similar)

She survived, but was blind for the rest of her life."

"Never underestimate what someone will do in extremes of mental health."

"I put my stethoscope to his chest, and in the midst of all the unsuspecting nurses talking around me, I thought I heard heartbeats. I had another nurse listen, and she confirmed it too! We immediately brought the patient to the ICU, where he unfortunately never woke up or recovered. Still, though, I'll never forget almost sending a live body to the morgue."

"He eventually got his lungs and healed 100%. Afterward, he told us all sorts of things that he thought were going on. Says it felt like real life, but he knows it was just a dream. Many people actually get PTSD from being in an ICU patient."

"This board is so long, we couldn't get him to a CT scan. So the janitor was called and asked to bring all his saws. Then there was a surreal conversation between the neurosurgeon, the ER doctor, and the trauma doctor about how to cut it and what type of wood it was, and if it was a hardwood or a softwood. They tried to use a powered saw, but it caused too much vibration, so they ended up just very carefully and slowly sawing through this board by hand. They cut it to about a foot long so he could fit in the scanner. He went off, EVERYONE went with him, and I was left to put orders and stuff in as the resident. At this point, discussions were about whether he could be a transplant donor.

I got the orders in, and the guy got the CT and came back to the trauma room. Everyone else was in radiology waiting for the pictures to format. The nurse came up to me and asked for some sedation medications. I told her he wasn't doing anything, and that we were gonna test his brain function in a minute, so I didn't want to give him anything.

I ran into the room and said, 'Sir, give me a thumbs up on your right hand. Boom: thumb came up on the right. Oh shit!! His face was still a hamburger, so you couldn't see anything there, but he could clearly hear, process, and act on it. We got him immediately on heavy pain meds and sedation right around the time everyone else came storming back to announce that he might be awake. Turns out, EMS had given him a huge slug of something to keep him out during the transport, so immediately on arrival, he was still out, and that explained why we didn't see any movement. But after 20 minutes or so, he began to wake up.

We discovered that this wooden board did not remain three inches wide the whole way, but tapered as it went back to only about 1/4 inch wide. It went just below the brain, missed the brainstorm by literally 1mm, missed all the important nerves, completely decimated his right lateral c1 vertebral body, transected his internal carotid artery and vein but tamponaded both of them so they didn't bleed, and he had been lucky enough to be born with a complete circle of Willis (an artery net in the brain) so he could get blood flow from the opposite artery to his right side and prevent his brain from stroking out due to the lack do flow.

The dude immediately went to surgery. He had the board removed and had repairs on his neck and face. He had about five surgeries, but apparently, he walked out of the hospital about a week later. He had to be in a special collar for like three months, but his only long-term damage was going to be a probably permanently crooked neck.

It was the wildest thing I've ever seen. About 100 things had to go exactly right for that guy to not just instantly die."