What? He is alive? Aww shit bro my bad! (1010 hits)
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Submitted by TripinDayZ (View user info) at 2004-05-28 15:59:10 EDT
I came across this article while browsing around on CNN.com (stop laughing, in some places it is considered a worthy news source. It's not? What the hell?) and the thought of this happening scared me somewhat significantly.
http://www.cnn.com/2004/US/West/05/28/near.drowning.ap/index.html
A quick synopsis:
Child falls in water. Child is submerged for about a half an hour then found. Rescue workers and officers try to bring the kid back. There is no detail on how long they tried to revive this poor child but he was soon pronounced dead. About an hour later, a hospital worker preparing the body for the morgue notices the kid is breathing.
What the fuck, over?
This kid was worked on by "professionals" for however long they are trained to do so and pronounced dead. How does a hospital worker simply look at his chest and notice him breathing when these guys were checking pulse, breathing, pupil response (and every other thing EMT's and officers trained in CPR are taught to do) and decided they should stop because there was no hope.
How does one know when to give up on a drowning victim?
I am not an EMT. I have never been a police officer. The last time I took CPR was in the early nineties when I was getting my S.C.U.B.A. certification. My point here is that I remember the signs of life mentioned in the preceding paragraph from over ten years ago. Also, I am fairly sure there have been a few revisions of techniques and such with the medical technology available today as opposed to that of ten plus years ago.
How did these people not know this kid was alive?
What if the hospital worker was having a bad day her husband used the last of the peanut butter she was going to use in the kids lunches to put on his balls for his own personal satisfaction (and of course Sparky's nutritional needs) so she had to stop by the store on her way to school and the lot was full so she double parked and got a ticket which put her drivers license up over the points limit and she has to take a class now on Saturday's to get her license back but she can't because her sick mom has to have her medication on Saturdays so she will have to hire someone to do that for her which will use the rest of the money from the college fund that her husband so dubiously helped himself to when Uri from South Africa needed ten thousand dollars to get the forty eight million dollars he has in his Saudi Arabian account to the United States?
Hmmm? That's right, I posed a question. Run on sentence? Where? Anyway...
I'll tell you what happens. Logan Pinto is sent to the morgue and placed in a body bag, sealed in the cooler until body preparation where he possibly regains consciousness and suffers one of the more horrific deaths known to mankind. Suffocation. This scares the shit out of me. Am I alone?
If I were the parents of Logan Pinto I think I would have a few questions for the officers that chose to stop working on my son.
..............and now, obligatory cuteness.
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Submitted by Dufflady (user info) at 2004-06-02 11:37:16 EDT (#)
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Wow, that is just very disturbing to me as a parent. Good thing someone was paying attention.
The +2 however is for little man.
Submitted by euripidestrousers (user info) at 2004-05-29 10:07:22 EDT (#)
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Submitted by SoxSexSax (user info) at 2004-05-29 01:11:21 EDT (#)
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Wow. What a scandal. And your reason for announcing it her was?
Submitted by AlwaysAnEagle (user info) at 2004-05-29 00:59:25 EDT (#)
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Z. WAYNE GRETZKY....is there any BETTER SPORTS role model?
Yeah, Gordie Howe. Gretzky was a whiny little bitch. Not to take anything away from his ability, but wah, wah, fucking WAH.
Submitted by FearBenzene (user info) at 2004-05-28 20:30:41 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 18:23:39 EDT (#)
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you know...I understand the dark humor and sarcasm that abounds in here sometimes about horrible subjects and sometimes toss in my own edge to the fray.....but DAMN.... when I read the comments from some of the people of this site.....it really scares the crap out of me.
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 18:15:54 EDT (#)
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For Numerous reasons Tripn,
A. Everyone knows hockey players are the most intelligent athletes in the world.
B. The Money is ridiculus. Think about future father days gifts, just how much OLD SPICE do you need?
C. All hockey players have model/actresses/diva trophy wives.
D. You know you'd be bragging your ASS off about your boy being a Right Winger for an NHL team to anyone that was in earshot.
E. You have to stay in very good shape to stay at the pro level.
F. Kurt Shilling, Babe Ruth and Kirby Puckett (refer to above statement)
G. 82 games vice 162
H. We have the freaking ZAMBONI.....and everyone knows how cool THAT is.
I. A few stitches under the eye gives him serious MAN-Character.
J. When's the last time you actually SLEPT at a hockey game......12 inning what?...exactly
K. POWERPLAYS
L. Hockey Players don't eat sunflower seeds or chew tobacco while they're playing for a reason.
M. The Stanley CUP is the GRAIL of all SPORTS,and it would like smashing next to your fireplace.
N. Penalty shots
O. Hockey Sweaters are the best sports garb out there
P. Backwards cross overs are the coolest sports moves out there.
Q. 2 on 1 break-aways
R. Sports CHANTS.....BELFOOOOOOOOOOOOOUR....BELFOOOOOOOOOOUR........YOU SUCK!!!!
S. Name the last NHLer that was ever though of as a pussy?
T. Penalty boxes
U. The pure speed, skill and finese it takes to wrist a puck past a goalies shoulder.
V. The highlights of his playing days..Bored watching the real game....what about his highlite reel?
W. FACERUBS
X. Hockey Stops that shoot ice all the way up the glass.
Y. take him to go see Miracle when he's old enough and watch his reaction.
Z. WAYNE GRETZKY....is there any BETTER SPORTS role model?
THATS WHY
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:51:56 EDT (#)
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Submitted by Slapshot99
disregard that first question. im a tool sometimes.
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:45:23 EDT (#)
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hahaha, why ice hockey? he's gonna be a lefty pitcher bro. a rare and dying breed which he will ressurect with his wicked bad slurve ball (slider/curve).
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:40:03 EDT (#)
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Tripn....man...... as the father of five girls, my one piece of advice is....GET THAT BOY INVOLVED WITH ICE HOCKEY ASAP......you'll reap the benefits of it for the rest of your life........and his
Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:35:36 EDT (#)
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Get this off the front page before that poor child is photoshopped or worse.
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:26:12 EDT (#)
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i tried to ignore it seeing as how that is my son.
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:22:40 EDT (#)
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BillsSBChamps...HOLY SHIT......did anyone else's ears perk up like a Dobermans to his comment?
Submitted by BillsSBChamps (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:09:17 EDT (#)
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Someone will whack it to that poor kids pic.
+2 for the story.
One.
Submitted by domenad (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:08:12 EDT (#)
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What's with the picture of the dead kid?
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 17:05:24 EDT (#)
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exactly. thank you.
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:53:49 EDT (#)
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bottom line is BRAIN ACTIVITY
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:52:33 EDT (#)
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how bout we don't send them to be prepared for the morgue then? maybe put em in a warm up chamber so maybe the possibility of them waking is increased a bit?
i am awawre of all the case scenarios mentioned. i am just wondering when these things are known to be true (hypothermia, body does amazing things, whatever) how do they know when those possibilities have been exhausted?
Submitted by QueenAshlee (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:33:25 EDT (#)
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If the water was cold, the kid could have had hypothermia, which makes the pulse, heartbeat, and breathing slow to almost a stop long before the person actually dies. It's almost impossible for rescue workers to know the difference until the body warms up enough for the heart and lungs to start functioning again.
Submitted by TripinDayZ420 (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:20:19 EDT (#)
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holy crap dude that is about the freakiest thing ive ever heard. grey mass of rope brain? god the images are disturbing. thanks for a great party story tho!
Submitted by Slapshot99 (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:16:58 EDT (#)
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You have to take into account that the human body is a engineering marvel. Maybe the kid met all the criteria for being declared dead. The human body finds ways to circumvent the obvious. I recall a story in college anatomy about an Indian kid that did the usual: grow up, go to school and marry a sweet heart ,routine. The whole time he did this though he suffered tremendous headaches and after seeing numerous doctors about it it was passed off as migraines.(Third World Medicine) Then a team of US doctors came in and someone listened to his complaints ande decided to do an MRI on the kid....Truns out he didn't even have anything that resembled a brain.....just some grey matter clumps surrounding his Hypothalmus tissue. The headaches were caused from this "rope" of brain tissue moving around in the CF fluid and the tip coming into contact with the inside of the kids skull. The kid had a GPA in college of 3.8...so.......bottom line........its a chain of events that cause stuff like this to happen....but the human body will, if it can, find a way.
Submitted by Random Joe at 2004-05-28 16:12:19 EDT (#)
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This happened in October or November, too. A toddler girl fell in her family's swimming pool and was pronounced dead. A hospital worker noticed her chest moving two hours later.
Submitted by AshK (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:08:25 EDT (#)
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+ 2 for an adorable picture, and because I have had nightmares about suffocating. ugh.
Submitted by munkeypants (user info) at 2004-05-28 16:03:30 EDT (#)
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strange things happen.