Doctors, What's the Craziest 'How Are You Even Alive' Thing You've Seen?

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[CuriousGoodsJessica]

My skull literally cracked all the way around & shifted to the left. Specialist Dr. told my parents he was a combat medic in Vietnam, & people don't usually live through that. And there was nothing they could do to treat it, maybe I'd remember how to walk, who I was, etc., and maybe not. (Dune buggy wreck, face hit the rollbar, engine sliced my head open, needed staples to close my head, busted eardrum, broken jaws, popped eye sockets, etc.) That was 25 yrs ago, and my balance is a little off, I can't smell anything and can't taste much, but I have no visible scars at all. And I still look 21 at 40+, I am so blessed. Thank God!

[Attaxalotl]

The human body: survives all of this
Also the human body: Oh you ate a little too fast three hours ago, how about a stomachache?

[stargazerart]

The ER doc was particularly upset with me when I waited months before coming in with severe weakness and fatigue, vomiting, unable to eat food, weight loss, and blood in stool. My hemoglobin level was a 4. Its supposed to be 12, you get a blood transfusion at 7, people often die at 5. And i was a 4. She said I would have fallen asleep and just never woke up within the month if not that week. Paired with the malnutrition, dehydration and already existing condition i already had (MS) she said it was a miracle i made it to the ER at all. I ended up having Crohns disease. So now i have Crohns and MS. Yay.
For anyone wondering why i waited, at first it was because i didnt have insurance (Im in america) and had to wait forever to get government help. When i did get it, I already had an appointment with my MS doctor in a couple of months and tried to wait it out but in the end I couldnt do it anymore and had to have someone take me to the ER.

[memyselfinsanity]

I got a molar pulled a month ago, the dentist who removed it applauded me and told me I won't need any painkillers and prob won't need any ibuprofen either. Story is he only injected me with one shot of novocaine and cut my tooth into 3 pieces to pull but I didn't feel a thing. Dentist thought I was the toughest mother tucker hes ever seen! Truthfully though I was so high on marijuana edibles that he could have pulled that tooth without any anesthetic lmao

[BuickDoc]

Story Two: A trauma patient, a huge male, 2m tall (6'6") and 161 Kg (355 lb) fell on a running 1.5 m circular sawmill blade. The blade threw him 10m where he hit a tree trunk, breaking his arm. When I saw him in the ER he had an 8" (20cm) deep gash which started above his right hip and ended above his left hip, across his back. At the bottom of the gash I could see pieces of bone from his spinal column and a glimpse of yellow from his ligamentum flavum, which resides about 3 mm from the spinal cord. He was unable to move his legs and was in shock from blood loss. I figured he had a severed spinal cord injury and perhaps a perforated colon or other intra peritoneal injury.
After fluid resuscitation, I took him to the OR and anesthetized him. A neurosurgeon stabilized his spine with metal plates and screws. A general surgeon closed the huge gash with a ton of sutures. He said that, in several places, he could see peritoneum, a thin membrane which encloses the gut, liver, spleen, ie all intra-abdominal organs, at the bottom of the gash, but it was intact.
When I visited the next day he was walking with assistance down the hallway! The paralysis he had was temporary from shock to his spinal cord, but there was no serious trauma to the cord.

[TheBellman]

I met a guy who had also had an aortic dissection relatively early (he was in his 50s I think) and he basically threaded the needle where the pain set in the 10 minutes where he hadn't left the house to go walk in the woods yet, his son's friend's doctor parents were to pick him up from a sleepover and could recognize the symptoms, and a senior vascular surgeon was on call at the hospital. He would have been stone dead if it began ten minutes earlier or later

[rankothefiremage]

On the Car accident thing, i once interned at Fords, and there was a dude in the office who had a wall of photos of cars that looked like they had been in a Michael Bay flick, and in every case the passengers had walked away on their own power.


One of the things i learned in that internship was that for all the talk of crumple zones, air bags, and other fancy new systems, they all work due to the Seat Belt being there to hold you in place and to allow the other devices to do their jobs.

[badbiker]

I have been in two vehicle accidents where the investigating cops were scratching their heads wondering how the hell I was alive. First one was in a semi-truck. I fell asleep behind the wheel due to a stupid work schedule. It happened at 2:30 am in a city on an interstate. The road curved to the left, my truck kept going straight and went through the exit sign on an off ramp. I woke up after the impact, steered the truck back onto the road with the engine stalled, and rolled a mile and a half before I could find a section of shoulder wide enough to pull over. The top and the right side of the cab was gone. Just gone. Right fender - gone. I walked away with just a few cuts from broken glass. I saved the load, fortunately, and after another truck from my company showed up the load was only about an hour and a half late. That was five years ago.
Second time I was driving a sedan about 8:00 pm on a state highway with a 55 mph speed limit. As I was going past the local Walmart someone exiting the store in a Dodge Ram 3500 ran the stop sign and broadsided me. The impact totaled both vehicles, but I had to be cut out of mine. I didn't fare so well this time. Broke all the ribs on the left side and collapsed the lung. My face was torn apart - looked like I had been hit with a shotgun blast. There's still pieces of glass (I think) embedded in my left cheek. Again, investigating officers looking at me, looking at photos of the car I was in, and asking how the hell was I standing there talking to them. I am thankful for modern engineering that puts such a strong cage around the passenger compartment in cars. Grateful to still be alive. That was three years ago. I still drive, with only a little PTSD when I am out after dark.
I have also drowned twice. Revived by professionals each time after just a few minutes under water. I do NOT swim any more.

[katesear]

Love all your videos but please make more about anything medical, they're the best ones xx

[Joshuathegreen]

So many appendicitis threads. I got appendicitis in November 2020, and usually it's not nearly as bad as these threads make it out to be. I got it, threw up every hour or so for the first 12 hours (it looked like blood because I had eaten a big bag of flaming hot cheetos) then it calmed down a little and I went to the hospital the next day. Got it removed the day after that and I was fine. Don't stress if you get it.

[gemm]

I swear, was “asthma” just the go-to diagnosis for any breathing issue for kids in the 90s?

I was diagnosed with asthma as a kid. No environmental triggers, but when I was in situations that stressed me out I had trouble breathing.

Flash forward to adulthood. Anxiety disorder. I was having panic attacks and hyperventilating. But of course I’d get the, “your asthma flares up at convenient times like when you have a test or you have to take off your t-shirt for ballet class” (i should specify I had a leotard underneath, lol, but I was chunky and standing in front of the wall of mirrors next to the skinny girls made me hate my life)

So I had to deal with being told I was faking. Meanwhile I’d get so dizzy I couldn’t stand up. I’m sure the inhaler helped because it made me change and pay attention to my breathing.

[SLMusic]

Axe bombed with no windows and very little ventilation, with people pressep up against the other side of the door. Didn’t suffocate.

[AoAstar]

a friend of mine had gotten hit and got a brain hemorrhage- really badly, it looked like half of it was in her neck. looking her brain when she first got in, it was scrambled, inside and the shape. i almost accepted that if she did survive she would never come back the same- in the end i couldnt it was really hard. but i never had to, she walked out fine. walking with her through the hospital maybe 3 months later, her walking and talking, her remembering everything, her speech and eyes getting back together (and not even 1 year later it went back to normal and now shes off traveling and doing art again)
we would run into doctors who she went up to to thank- she really was a ghost to them
shes got something strong in her thats for sure! and of course all the medical pros involved as well<3
(we were lucky covid happened right after she got out of the hospital, but that was when she was healed and hated being kept in more! :'0)

[desthstride]

Bled 12 liters. Injury was so bad there was only one procedure that could save me. Single-digit number of people in the country are certified to perform it, none of while frequent the hospital I was at. One just happened to be visiting that day.

[toothlesslightfury]

This is precisely why I want to be a surgeon. An orthopedic surgeon to be precise. I have never ever once seen a miracle happen infront of me and I know that’s probably gonna happen several times during surgery. But I don’t want to do it just for seeing miracles. Surgery saves people. I want to do that.

[Human-kbxc]

The guy who survived the subdural hematoma just had twins about a month ago! So happy he was able to live to see this moment.

[bobwalsh]

Odds are at least one person who saw me at Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital 50 weeks ago today (11/17/20) probably wondered that. Hell, I was wondering it! I was maybe hours, maybe a day, from death due to DKA. Real sorry state.

[tripsmith]

Lmfao as soon as the first person mentioned a bush party I immediately knew he was Aussie.

I'm from America but have friends there that go to those a lot and constantly mention them😂

[Eudevie]

I don't get how people with THAT badly controlled diabetes not feel like absolute garbage. I start feeling bad at 170 I can't imagine 200+.

[itsivaschannel]

The person who endured the non-viable twin sounds like they got cut in half