Saturday, August 2, 2003
I was sent this link by a friend...I still don't get it. Wouldn't your veins and arteries be severed and you'd die from blood-loss to the brain regardless of the condition of your spine? This guy should join a tough-man competition or...something.
Holding severed head in place, he defied death
AGRA: A 28-year-old carrier van driver's head nearly got chopped off in a road accident. Weeks later he is alive, thanks to sheer grit.
His head almost severed, blood oozing and eyes popping out, Balram was in a dazed state when the accident took place on July 5 in Fatehabad in Uttar Pradesh.
He, however, kept his head attached to his body with some cloth. When no one came to help him, he drove his own vehicle for 30 km to reach a nursing home in Agra.
Doctors there found the head partly joined with the spinal column -- something that saved his life.
D.V. Sharma, who runs the nursing home, said it was Balram's supreme confidence and presence of mind that must have made him drive without any loss of time.
"Had there been some delay, death was a certainty."[...]
