LOL, woman shot in the head, makes herself tea.

What are the chances?

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090417/...hJQwIAHgrtiBIF

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Miss. woman gets shot in head, but makes tea
AP

By JAY REEVES, Associated Press Writer Jay Reeves, Associated Press Writer – 6 mins ago

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – A Mississippi woman who was shot in the head not only survived but made herself tea and offered an astonished deputy something to drink, authorities said Friday. Tammy Sexton, 47, remained hospitalized three days after being wounded by her husband, who killed himself after he shot his wife. She is expected to fully recover.

"There's no way she should be alive other than a miracle from God," said Sheriff Mike Byrd of Jackson County, Miss.

Byrd said deputies were looking for Sexton's husband, Donald Ray Sexton, earlier in the week to give him a document ordering him to stay away from his wife. Court records show he was put on probation for six months on April 9 for domestic violence.

He showed up at their home in rural Jackson County in Southeast Mississippi about 12:10 a.m. Tuesday and confronted his wife as a relative ran next door to call police, the sheriff said.

"She was at her bed, and he shot her right in the head," Byrd said. "Then he went out on the back porch and shot himself."

The slug from a .380-caliber handgun struck Tammy Sexton squarely in the forehead, passed through her skull and exited through the back of her head, Byrd said. A deputy arrived within minutes and was greeted by the woman.

"When the officer got there she said, `What's going on?' She was holding a rag on her head and talking. She was conscious, but she was confused about what had happened," he said. "She had made herself some tea and offered the officer something to drink."

Byrd said the bullet apparently passed through the lobes of the woman's brain without causing major damage. She was rushed to a Mobile hospital by a helicopter.

While such cases may be rare, medical journals confirm people have been shot in the head with little or no lasting injury.

"It's bizarre. You just don't hear of something like this. Somebody gets shot in the head and they're dead," Byrd said.

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As long as the bullet passes between the two halves,,Chances are no problems.. Years ago, in my Army medical career I read the account of a guy that got shot in the head.. The only damage done was the piece that "ties" the two halves together was severed, other than that He was fine.. He ended up in a "right brain" vs "left brain" studies.. can't recall anything beyond that..

Severing the right and left brain path creates issues for sure. They used to do that to prevent people from having seizures. It works, BUT it gives you weird side effects because it reduced the ability of your right and left lobes to communicate. I've seen footage of those "right brain" vs. "left brain" studies, and they are quite interesting and hilarious.

They will have you cover one eye, and show you a picture. You know what it is, but you can't speak the name. HOWEVER, the person COULD write the name of the object with the other hand, then still not know what they had written until the were allowed to read it. The lady in the video had problems where her left hand literally had a different personality.

In one study, they'd have "yes" and "no" written on a piece of paper, then ask her a question, and have her point to the answer with her right hand. She'd try to do it, and her left hand would grab the finger of her right hand, and throw it away. Or, the left hand would completely cover the word. The lady would be so frustrated that she would start yelling and crying, pleading with her own hand. In some other video footage, she'd be standing in her closet looking for things to wear, and her left hand would randomly grab things off the rack and throw them on the floor. It was some pretty funny/disturbing stuff, but at least she didn't have epileptic seizures anymore! lol

I think the name of the piece of brain in question is the corpus collapsum or something like that.


Cliffnotes: Getting your corpus collapsum fucks you up, but in a non-life threatening way that is kind of funny. If I ever get shot in the head, I hope the same thing happens to me.