Extreme trepanning

From: rabbs@subgenius.com (Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde)
Date: Tue, Sep 2, 2003

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/drill_survivor030902gma.html

(Kids, you have to see the photos of the x-rays to believe this one.)

Bit of Good Luck
Man Survives 18-Inch Drill Bit in Head

Sept. 2~ Ron Hunt's friends call him the "miracle man."

The Truckee, Calif., resident survived a freak accident in which an
18-inch drill bit penetrated through his right eye into his skull, but
left him with no serious damage to his brain.

"It is a miracle, it seems like for sure," he told ABCNEWS' Good
Morning America today in an exclusive network interview.

Hunt was standing on a ladder drilling into a surface overhead on
August 15, when the ladder suddenly gave way. He dropped the drill and
then fell to the floor, landing face first onto the bit. The whole
sequence happened so quickly Hunt did not even see the bit coming.

"By the time I was falling, and I let the drill go down, I was already
on top of it," he said.

The rod went into his eye socket and out the back of his head, behind
his right ear.

"I ran my hands up the drill bit, up to my eye, and put my other hand
in the back of my head and felt it coming through the back of my
head," Hunt remembered. "And that's where pretty much the shock set
in."

Hunt's co-workers rushed him to the hospital. He was bleeding heavily
and extremely frightened.

"I couldn't believe what my eyes were seeing," said his co-worker,
Forrest Keating.

After weighing their options, doctors essentially unscrewed the bit to
remove it.

"We would have cut it off, but after a few minutes of drilling, we
noticed that it was loose. And so we just put down our blade and
twisted the bit," said Dr. Paul Ludlow, the surgeon who performed the
operation.

Despite the ghoulish accident, Hunt still joked with doctors and his
amazed co-workers. Hunt said that after receiving a shot of morphine
to kill the pain, he joked that it was "a Kodak moment" and suggested
someone get a photo of his injury.

Ludlow said Hunt came very close to death.

The bit essentially pushed his brain aside, rather than impaling it.

"I think he turned his head just enough. Had it gone towards the apex
[of the eye socket], I don't think he would have been alive," Ludlow
said.

Hunt will be fitted with a glass eye, but is otherwise expected to
recover fully.

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Rabbi Jacklyn Hyde wrote:
> Bit of Good Luck
> Man Survives 18-Inch Drill Bit in Head

Injured head Goooooood!

Healed head bad.

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