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Posted on 07/06/2006 1:09:03 AM PDT by sully777
KOLKATA, India (Reuters) - Hundreds of people are thronging a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata to see a patient holding a piece of his own skull that fell off.
Doctors say a large, dead section of 25-year-old electrician Sambhu Roy's skull came away Sunday after severe burns starved it of blood.
"When he came to us late last year, his scalp was completely burned and within months it came off exposing the skull," Ratan Lal Bandyopadhyay, the surgeon who treated Roy told Reuters Wednesday.
"Later, we noticed that the part of his skull was loosening due to lack of blood supply to the affected area, which can happen in such extensive burn cases."
The piece came off Sunday and hundreds of people and dozens of doctors now crowd around his bed, where he lies holding the bone.
Bandyopadhyay said the skull's inner covering and the membrane which helps produce bone was miraculously unaffected, allowing fresh bone to grow.
"When the skull came off, I thought he will die, but we noticed a new covering on his head forming and that might have pushed the 'dead skull' out," he said.
While possible, such cases are extremely rare.
Roy was injured and almost killed when he was electrocuted while repairing a high voltage wire last October.
"Doctors say a new skull covering has replaced the old one, but I am not letting go of this one," he told Reuters.
He intends to keep his prized possession for life and not hand it over to the hospital when he leaves: "My skull has made me famous," he says
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Step right up and see the amazing Molting Man of Kolkata!!!
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Freaky.
I'm not a union supporter except when it comes to electricians. Whatever money they want they can have. Godloveem' they're some of the bravest, craziest SOBs that walk the planet. There's not enough money in the world that would allow me to overcome the fear of what happened to this guy. Imagine waking up after a bolt burned your head as it exited from a live wire.
Why would they not have been able to put a metal plate in his head?
I know, I hate it when that happens.
Oh, come on! Isn't anyone going to make a comment about an Indian being scalped?
Exactly. Maybe he could use one of these:
Yossarian--Catch22-- I just purchased the book.
Pancake?
Sambhu...sucks to be you dude.
At least he's keeping an open mind.
Poor guy's going to pieces.
(GROAN)
"Dude, that was my skull, I'm so wasted."
Hat's off to him for that.
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Aw, this kind of stuff happens to Jessica and Ashlee all the time . . . |
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