A Miracle?

[Scanker19]

So I'm the complete opposite of religious in every way, almost to the point to where I despise all religions.

I do find it almost a miracle how and how fast Congresswoman Giffords is recovering from a gunshot wound to the head.

Its amazing to me anyway.

[OgenRwot]

It seems like it's a miracle because there is a God and there are miracles and this is one of them.

[Byte Stryke]

pfft,
silly me, I thought it was because she was hit at an oblique angle, the rapid and professional reaction of the paramedics on scene and the advances in neural medical technology...

goes to show you what I know.

[Scanker19]

pfft,
silly me, I thought it was because she was hit at an oblique angle, the rapid and professional reaction of the paramedics on scene and the advances in neural medical technology...

goes to show you what I know.

True but just for all that stuff to fall in place is just, well neat. You could shoot someone in the head in the OR with six nuero-surgeons in the room, how many people do you think could survive. Whether you consider this a theological, or medical miracle, its still amazing.

Like the guy who was shot in the face in Iraq with a 9X18mm. I'll see if I can find the article.

[Marlin]

Meh,, It's happened before. Just the right angle and such.. I can't recall all the details but, sometime during the 40's or 50's, There was a case where some dude got shot, and it took out the little connecter between the right brain and the left brain. He ended up with steady employment as a subject in right/left brain studies.

[Scanker19]

http://www.perfectunion.com/vb/gener...int-blank.html

Is about as close as I can find. May be bullsheeat though.

I've heard of people trying to kill themselves, shoot them selves in the temple and miss the brain, severe their eye cords (that's a medical term) and live.

[bellavite1]

Remember the old joke "never trust somebody that bleeds for five days and doesn't die"?
NEVER TRUST SOMEBODY THAT GETS SHOT IN THE BRAIN AND DOES NOT DIE.

[bellavite1]

It seems like it's a miracle because there is a God and there are miracles and this is one of them.

I think the little girl that died would beg to differ...

[Scanker19]

you don't need most of your brain.

Most don't use it either. Case and point, 10mins ago my 2 year old was playing with an attachment to my vacuum. She brings it to me and we go to put it back on. I'm trying to jam it in the round spot, sarcastically I ask her where is goes and she point to the exact spot (not where I was jamming it) that it belonged.

I'm a big dumb animal.

[SU405]

pfft,
silly me, I thought it was because she was hit at an oblique angle, the rapid and professional reaction of the paramedics on scene and the advances in neural medical technology...

goes to show you what I know.

I think the little girl that died would beg to differ...