Man waits 6 hours with knife in brain: Stabbing victim fully conscious as surgeons plotted surgery

worldnetdaily.com ^ | 7-29-03

[Colofornian]

A fully conscious New Zealand man waited six hours while surgeons debated the best course of action to remove a knife that had been imbedded deep into his brain.

Police in Wellington, New Zealand, said the 37-year-old man was stabbed during a disagreement at about 4 a.m. local time, the Dominion Post reported.

Surgeons spent six hours planning the operation, which was successful. Martin Hunn, a Wellington Hospital neurosurgeon, said the man "would have been in pain" as he waited for surgery, according to the report.

Dr. Hunn consulted an ear, nose and throat specialist before the man's surgery. Though it had to be done quickly, such a delicate surgery needed some planning prior to the operation to remove the knife.

"It's not the kind of operation we wanted to do at the end of the night," Hunn told the paper.

The operation took five hours. The man, who was not named in the original report, went into surgery about 10 a.m. local time, according to the paper.

Hunn said the patient was lucky the knife, which was serrated, was not pulled out at the scene. According to modern treatment methods, emergency medical care calls for splinting and bandaging the knife in place, rather than pulling it out. To remove it at the scene, emergency medical specialists warn, could mean greater harm, bleeding and damage of the patient.

"It would have been extremely dangerous. A lot of people try and pull the offending object out – it's best if it's left in there," Hunn told the Post.

Though severely injured, the man was expected to recover and not suffer any permanent brain damage.

Meanwhile, Peterson Hannah, 37, appeared in Wellington District Court yesterday and was charged with causing grievous bodily harm with intent. He was remanded to custody and is expected to appear in court again on Friday, the paper reported.

[Colofornian]

Now if I was to take the tactics of the Kobots and Kobheads & other trash-talking Kobe defenders, I would arrange my commentary accordingly:

* This New Zealand man was heard 3 days after treatment at the hospital bragging about this alleged run-in.

* Notice his name is not given in the article, whereas the alleged perpetrator (Peterson Hannah), is. You have a constitutional right to confront your accuser in this country. This alleged victim should not be able to ruin this man's reputation in one fell swoop. They should publish his name as well.

* This was all a mistake--a misunderstanding. The article even says it was due to a disagreement. I'm sure Peterson Hannah didn't mean to plant the knife where it landed. However, I'm positive that this penetration was consensual. Perhaps it just got out of hand a bit, and the resulting contact was just a bit rougher and deeper than this 37 year old guy expected. Anyway, there were no other witnesses up at 4 a.m. so it's just he-said, he-said.

* How do we know this alleged victim--this accuser-- didn't bring it on himself? I mean what was he doing with another man at 4 a.m. anyway? He was obviously there for sex for what else are men together at that hour? A knife in the brain? Well, of course, this man was brainless to be with him to begin with! Any man who's hard up enough to be with a such a knife-wielding man was obviously desperate for attention. And, well, he got it! This is international news now!

[Billthedrill]

One little knife in the brain? Get that bum back to work. Slacker...

[Colofornian]

He was obviously there for sex

I forgot to add a modifier: He was obviously there for sadomasochistic sex

[ClearCase_guy]

It's just a flesh wound!

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

The victim wanted it, and someone had to tell him that he had a knife in the brain.

[Semper Paratus]

said the man "would have been in pain" as he waited for surgery

Gee d'ya think?

[Colofornian]

The victim wanted it, and someone had to tell him that he had a knife in the brain.

LOL

Of course, the "disagreement" mentioned in the article was only on where to place the knife.

[mountaineer]

Well, yes, I'm sure that's all very amusing, even if it has absolutely nothing to do with the Kobe Bryant matter.

[Hatteras]

What? No X-Ray pic? sheesh...

[Hatteras]

Oh...found it. nevermind...

[ladtx]

OK OK, I'll say it. Must've been a splitting headache.

[r9etb]

""WHOSOEVER PULLETH OUT THIS KNIFE FROM THIS SKULL AND BRAIN IS THE RIGHTFUL BORN KING OF NEW ZEALAND."

[Charles Henrickson]

. . . . . . . . "My brain hurts!"

[LibWhacker]

[ffusco]

Walk it off!

[dfwgator]

Send him to St. Pooves:

First Doctor: Get on parade! Come on! We haven't got all day, have we? Come on, come on, come on. (the patients painfully get themselves into line) Hurry up ... right! Now, I know some hospitals where you get the patients lying around in bed. Sleeping, resting, recuperating, convalescing. Well, that's not the way we do things here, right! No, you won't be loafing about in bed wasting the doctors' time. You - you horrible little cripple. What's the matter with you?

1st Patient: Fractured tibia, sergeant.

First Doctor: 'Fractured tibia, sergeant'? 'Fractured tibia, sergeant'? Ooh. Proper little mummy's boy, aren't we? Well, I'll tell you something, my fine friend, if you fracture a tibia here you keep quiet about it! Look at him! (looks more closely) He's broken both his arms and he don't go shouting about it, do he? No! 'Cos he's a man - he's a woman, you see, so don't come that broken tibia talk with me. Get on at the double. One, two, three, pick that crutch up, pick that crutch right up.

[Colofornian]

The victim wanted it, and someone had to tell him that he had a knife in the brain.

Any other parallels (or major departures)to add between the 19 year old Rifle victim (kobe) and this New Zealand knife victim?

[Liberal Classic]

Too silly. Too silly.

[<1/1,000,000th%]

LOL!!

[ImProudToBeAnAmerican]

Doh!

Nothing good happens at 4am...