Posted on 06/29/2010 1:16:02 PM PDT by LibWhacker
Jeweller credits his ‘agile’ fingers for being able to tie knots in arteries
A man with no medical training managed to save a young woman's life when both her legs were severed by a train and he tied the protruding arteries of her legs into knots.
The woman was reportedly hoping to spend Sunday night under the stars with her boyfriend as they jumped onto a slow-moving freight train near Jonquiere, northeast of Quebec City.
According to authorities, the 20-year-old woman lost her footing and fell under the wheels.
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This person has a place in God’s coming Kingdom. God bless him!
What a horrible story — with sort of a good ending. This man is a hero, to be sure.
Wow, I probably would have blacked out and been run over by the next train ... not a blood and guts guy, this guys is one cool cookie
Right man, in the right place at the right time.
Blessings on him.
Missed being a Darwin Nominee by ‘that much’.
Wow. Amazing!
Just DANG! Man had an iron stomach.
She might be planning to sue the railroad, but ... well ... you know ...
Knowing what a slippery, confusingly red mess that would have been, I can’t imagine how he managed to seize arteries and tie knots in them. Most people couldn’t tell an artery from a vein anyway. And the arteries, being muscular, tend to contract when severed so I don’t even know how he located them. It’s inconceivable. The Holy Spirit must have been guiding his fingers and his stomach. God must have something planned for this young idiot’s life.
Me either. At first I thought he must've used the old seamstress's trick for tying a one-handed overhand knot where you make a loop and roll the thread between your thumb and forefinger, then pull the end through. But doing that with a big bloody, slippery stub of an artery, I can't imagine (I had to try it again with my shoestrings to re-confirm in my mind that it only works with small stuff like thread). So I don't know how he managed. She is one lucky lady that I wasn't the one who happened upon the scene; I'm too hamfisted to ever have tied her arteries off, even with both hands.
“She might be planning to sue the railroad, but ... well ... you know ...”
That suit has no legs?
Most people couldn’t tell an artery from a vein anyway. And the arteries, being muscular, tend to contract when severed so I don’t even know how he located them.
The arteries would have been the ones spurting a lot of blood.
Wow, what an amazing guy.
I wouldn’t have had a clue what to do.
But she is suing them for an arm and a leg.
What does a guy who has no duct tape do with a tube or pipe that is leaking. Tie ‘er off. Git ‘er done.
This man is amazing!
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