Thank you for the medical explanation. It would have been helpful if the author of the original article had done some research on the possible causes of such an accident. How frequent are accidents like these?
I’m thinking about my poor husband. He had brain surgery this past year for a non-malignent mengianoma (sp) the same day as Gabby Giffords was shot. Having his head catch on fire during surgery was NOT one of the things that worried me!
Fortunately he has recovered quite well, although he lost a lot of hair from the prophyllactic radiation treatments. Most of his hair has come back 6 months after the cessation of radiation, although he still has a rather odd hairline. He has a nasty scar and a dent in his skull where they drilled to start the incision, but I’ll take him any way I can have him.
I don’t know how I could have endured the wait for him to come out of surgery if I’d had to worry about him catching on fire.