Posted on 03/05/2007 5:20:45 PM PST by HighWheeler
VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 28 (UPI) -- A 20-year-old Canadian woman who survived a car crash carried her severed arm with her until she could receive reattachment treatment.
After Joni Ross' car slipped off a road outside the Canadian village of Pemberton last week, the injured college student clutched her severed left arm and walked for help, the Vancouver Sun reported.
After finding no one home at an area house, the University of British Columbia student waited on the road Thursday until a passerby, an off-duty paramedic, got her medical attention.
The injured woman endured a nearly three-hour helicopter ride to Vancouver General Hospital, where specialists worked for nine hours to reattach the arm.
"She said to them, 'I don't care what you think, I want that arm back on,'" the woman's grandfather, Herb Nolan. "They went ahead and did the operation. It took them all night."
The paper said blood flow to the reattached arm had been re-established, but Ross had no feeling in the limb yet.
"...the University of British Columbia student waited on the road Thursday until a passerby, an off-duty paramedic, got her medical attention."
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I wonder which arm she waved to flag down the paramedic?
Best wishes to a brave woman. I'd freak out.
1) only work in a cold climate, or the infection would kill you.
2) Nerves have to regrow, and they do it SLOWLY. It will be 20 years before she can feal that arm, although, if she is lucky, she will be able to use it in months.
3) That is one determined lady!
That ain't right!
Ya still gotta wonder....
You would think she would have died of blood loss, or passed out from blood loss. She is tough.
According to Mapquest, Pemberton is 97 miles to Vancouver (a 2 hour drive). Do they have "socialized helicopters", too?
She IS tough, and smart.
She deserves her arm back for that alone.
God Bless Her.
Who is this woman, Sarah O'Connor?
"exsanguinated"
great word.
If it was severed, how come she didn't bleed to death?
Must have been difficult applying a touriquet with just one arm.
Should have gone with, "Bleed out."
I can spell that. ;)
Not really - you ave a belt, and teeth.
Mindset...
If it was severed, how come she didn't bleed to death?
Amputations cause contractions of the small muscles around the blood vessels, sort of shuts off the flow.
This gal is tough, she will do well regardless of the eventual outcome
I'd freak out if she rang my doorbell holding her arm.
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