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UMD student who nearly froze, cried when told about amputations [UPDATE]
http://blogs.citypages.com/blotter/2013/12/alyssa_jo_lommel_umd_student_who_almost_froze_still_hasnt_been_told_about_her_injuriesjuriesalyssa_jo_lomme.php ^

Posted on 01/01/2014 5:37:27 PM PST by MNDude

Original post (December 30) -- Around 9:30 a.m. on December 7, University of Minnesota-Duluth student Alyssa Jo Lommel, 19, was found nearly frozen to death on a neighbor's porch. She'd apparently spent the entire night outside while temperatures dropped as low as 17 below zero.

THE BACKSTORY: UMD student Alyssa Jo Lommel tweeted about tequila shots before she was found freezing

More than three weeks later, Lommel remains hospitalized. Her condition has been upgraded to fair, but according to her family, doctors still haven't told her how bad her injuries are.

Her doctor "felt that today it would be good to just tell her about the amputations,"

The doctor "also told her how lucky she was just to be alive, but I really don't think any of that sunk in," Teri Lommel continued. "It took her several minutes before she looked at any of us. Then she started to slowly cry."

(Excerpt) Read more at blogs.citypages.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: Minnesota
KEYWORDS: alcohol; alyssajolommel; boozer; coeds; darwin; drunk; news
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To: MNDude

Hopefully she will find sense from this by becoming a strong advocate about the recklessness of binge and underage drinking.


121 posted on 01/01/2014 7:05:28 PM PST by Burkean (.)
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To: DesertRhino

A nineteen year old is not a little anything.
At nineteen I was more than halfway through my first enlistment.
She may be childish, but she is not a child.

No sale on perpetual adolescence, no matter how popular that goofy notion is with the immature.


122 posted on 01/01/2014 7:07:43 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Then you haven’t a shred of human decency. Stupid kids do stupid stuff. I have and so have my kids. Maybe you’ve walked around with a stick up your butt all your life, but normal people have not.


123 posted on 01/01/2014 7:08:23 PM PST by Emmett McCarthy
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To: Colonel_Flagg

And what a HORRIBLE headline!


124 posted on 01/01/2014 7:08:47 PM PST by MNDude
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To: MNDude

Everything about this is horrible. Not just the headline.


125 posted on 01/01/2014 7:11:46 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: vetvetdoug

And every year many people of all ages who have themselves lost friends to inebriated stupidity go out and get themselves killed anyway.

She was an adult and is in every way responsible for what happened.

No sale on any victimhood angle.

No matter how much the concept of personal responsibility may be an anethama to you.

The whole thing may be sad but she brought it on herself.


126 posted on 01/01/2014 7:13:43 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Hieronymus

Dittos to that! Anyone who was born and raised in an area with an extended, (say months at a time), length of VERY cold weather learns and is taught the basic SOP ‘tricks’ early on. Noobies had better learn fast or it it might be ice cube city for ‘em the first time they run into a problem. In the house, outside the house, when traveling in/by car or truck, there just are a lot of things to plan ahead for. Especially if contact with others for possible help is limited. As you said, nature has zero mercy.


127 posted on 01/01/2014 7:14:20 PM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a GREAT life!)
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To: berdie

There is a difference between a natural consequence and a punishment.
Unless I suppose you are an Obama, in which case even a baby is a punishment.


128 posted on 01/01/2014 7:17:12 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Too many Freepers are simply asses.


129 posted on 01/01/2014 7:20:14 PM PST by Timmy
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To: Colonel_Flagg

Thanks for that info. I guess the family must be okay with this even though I’ve read they switched their CB site to private.


130 posted on 01/01/2014 7:20:44 PM PST by mplsconservative (Barack Hussein 0bama has American blood on HIS hands!)
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To: Timmy

You can say that again


131 posted on 01/01/2014 7:22:15 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: driftdiver

OK. Too many Freepers are simply asses.


132 posted on 01/01/2014 7:29:17 PM PST by Timmy
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To: mplsconservative

Well, if they did, I certainly wouldn’t blame them. I fully admit I don’t know how private CB sites work, I assume it’s like making your Facebook or Twitter private, but I don’t know. I do know Duluth stations have referenced the Caring Bridge site in their coverage.


133 posted on 01/01/2014 7:31:15 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: MNDude

I feel so sorry for this girl. I also cant help thinking that this is a perfect example of why you should never get so drunk or stoned that you cant take care of yourself.


134 posted on 01/01/2014 7:34:51 PM PST by annelizly
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To: Windflier

Compassion is irrelevant.

Nature has no compassion.

A better course is to trumpet this for what it is - an unavoidable consequence for not recognizing the danger of alcohol in winter.

Sound it far and wide.

That might sink in to some people. And not just younger adults.


135 posted on 01/01/2014 7:37:06 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: Colonel_Flagg

I’m not on FB or Twitter either, so I don’t know. I just read the feedback on City Pages about how they are appalled, even there, about the details of this unfortunate young woman’s journey.

I pray for grace for her. So sad. It could’ve been me back in the day and I really don’t like a lot of what I see on FR about this.


136 posted on 01/01/2014 7:37:52 PM PST by mplsconservative (Barack Hussein 0bama has American blood on HIS hands!)
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To: MNDude
Well, she's alive, at least. At the university where I work we lost a young student last fall to 5 degree weather under very similar conditions. He was titanically drunk and no one around him was sober enough to keep him from trying to walk home. He went to sleep under a bridge and never woke up.

Prayers up for the young lady. And for the people who had to tell her.

137 posted on 01/01/2014 7:39:36 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: Timmy

Too many Freepers cling bitterly to the concept of personal responsibility.


138 posted on 01/01/2014 7:40:43 PM PST by MrEdd (Heck? Geewhiz Cripes, thats the place where people who don't believe in Gosh think they aint going.)
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To: mplsconservative

I’m with you. Yes, she made a horrible mistake and yes the driver of the car she rode in will live with another mistake for the rest of his life. But mercy is never a bad thing to show to the penitent, and I have no doubt the young lady is very sorry for her actions.


139 posted on 01/01/2014 7:41:11 PM PST by Colonel_Flagg (Some people meet their heroes. I raised mine. Go Army.)
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To: MrEdd
Compassion is irrelevant.

Not to mature adults.

140 posted on 01/01/2014 7:43:53 PM PST by TigersEye (Stupid is a Progressive disease.)
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