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Crash Victim Takes Severed Arm with Her
News Daily ^ | Feb 28, 2007 | no author cited

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.


TOPICS: Canada; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: canuk; socializedmedicine
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That is one tough woman.
1 posted on 03/05/2007 5:20:46 PM PST by HighWheeler
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To: HighWheeler

"...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?


2 posted on 03/05/2007 5:22:42 PM PST by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: HighWheeler

Best wishes to a brave woman. I'd freak out.


3 posted on 03/05/2007 5:23:43 PM PST by unkus
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To: HighWheeler

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!


4 posted on 03/05/2007 5:25:45 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: HighWheeler

That ain't right!


5 posted on 03/05/2007 5:28:33 PM PST by Livin_large (Hunter '08)
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Ya still gotta wonder....


6 posted on 03/05/2007 5:29:26 PM PST by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: patton

You would think she would have died of blood loss, or passed out from blood loss. She is tough.


7 posted on 03/05/2007 5:29:56 PM PST by Cecily
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The injured woman endured a nearly three-hour helicopter ride to Vancouver General Hospital, where specialists worked for nine hours to reattach the arm.

According to Mapquest, Pemberton is 97 miles to Vancouver (a 2 hour drive). Do they have "socialized helicopters", too?

8 posted on 03/05/2007 5:30:51 PM PST by Onelifetogive (After extensive research by a team of researchers, the criminal's party could not be determined...)
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She IS tough, and smart.

She deserves her arm back for that alone.


9 posted on 03/05/2007 5:32:16 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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Must have used a tourniquet, or she would have exsanguinated, I guess.
10 posted on 03/05/2007 5:33:22 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: HighWheeler

God Bless Her.


11 posted on 03/05/2007 5:34:22 PM PST by spanalot
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To: HighWheeler

Who is this woman, Sarah O'Connor?


12 posted on 03/05/2007 5:34:47 PM PST by Extremely Extreme Extremist (Good night Chesty, wherever you are!)
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"exsanguinated"


great word.


13 posted on 03/05/2007 5:34:56 PM PST by HighWheeler (A true liberal today is a combination of socialist, fascist, hypocrite, and anti-American.)
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To: HighWheeler

If it was severed, how come she didn't bleed to death?


14 posted on 03/05/2007 5:37:40 PM PST by expatpat
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"Must have used a tourniquet, or she would have exsanguinated, I guess. "

Must have been difficult applying a touriquet with just one arm.

15 posted on 03/05/2007 5:40:05 PM PST by Godebert
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Should have gone with, "Bleed out."

I can spell that. ;)


16 posted on 03/05/2007 5:40:24 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: Godebert

Not really - you ave a belt, and teeth.


17 posted on 03/05/2007 5:41:19 PM PST by patton (Sanctimony frequently reaps its own reward.)
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To: HighWheeler

Mindset...


18 posted on 03/05/2007 5:59:22 PM PST by ibbryn (this tag intentionally left blank)
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To: expatpat

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


19 posted on 03/05/2007 6:18:28 PM PST by Tracker47
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To: unkus

I'd freak out if she rang my doorbell holding her arm.


20 posted on 03/05/2007 6:22:05 PM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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