How could this happen?
Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2007 2:04 pm
Over the weekend I had been talking with some friends at the hospital and got told some interesting stories. One was of a man who had walked in to the emergency room complaining of severe headaches. The problem was that his scalp had been peeled back from his skull from just above the brow line and hung like a flap over the back of his head. Due to his blood alcohol level, he wasn’t bleeding and anesthesia could not be used. The man had no clue as to what had happened and they talked to him while they stitched his scalp back on. Due to being a vagrant he was unable to pay and left as soon as the procedure was done. Never to be seen again. I thought that one was neat.
The story though that caught my attention was known by all three of them, though there was some variation in the details. Also all of them had heard the tale at different hospitals at different times. I guess the story had grown to be sort of anecdotal.
As the story goes, back in the late sixties, early seventies a young man had been checked into a hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain, bloating, rapid weight gain, and nausea. After months of testing, every known disease and digestive aliment had been eliminated. Even while in the hospital under a controlled diet, he continued to gain weight. Science could find no reason to explain what was happening to the man. After about 4 months in the hospital the man died as his abdominal muscles tightened up to the point that his pelvis snapped in three pieces. One of those pieces cut his femoral artery and he died of internal bleeding before anyone could save him.
I asked what, if anything, they knew about the man, or how this could have happened. I was told that apparently this man been in either Central or Southern America for several months. He had returned to the US about 8 months before his death. About 5 months before his death he had gone to his local doctor with strange symptoms. Over the next 5 months his symptoms continued to worsen until his death.
The young man told the hospital workers that he had gone to South or Central America on a business trip. He was attempting to earn enough money to buy a house for him and his girl so that they could get married. He had eaten the local food but could think of nothing that could have caused his symptoms, no injuries, or animal bites. One of my friends did thing he heard the young man had said, just before his death that he had sex with a local girl and it had been almost 9 months.
I have no idea as to how this could be accomplished. Are there spells that could do such a thing, or maybe so kind of mind power? Or does this just sound like a work of fiction to y’all?
Droopy Dawg
The story though that caught my attention was known by all three of them, though there was some variation in the details. Also all of them had heard the tale at different hospitals at different times. I guess the story had grown to be sort of anecdotal.
As the story goes, back in the late sixties, early seventies a young man had been checked into a hospital complaining of severe abdominal pain, bloating, rapid weight gain, and nausea. After months of testing, every known disease and digestive aliment had been eliminated. Even while in the hospital under a controlled diet, he continued to gain weight. Science could find no reason to explain what was happening to the man. After about 4 months in the hospital the man died as his abdominal muscles tightened up to the point that his pelvis snapped in three pieces. One of those pieces cut his femoral artery and he died of internal bleeding before anyone could save him.
I asked what, if anything, they knew about the man, or how this could have happened. I was told that apparently this man been in either Central or Southern America for several months. He had returned to the US about 8 months before his death. About 5 months before his death he had gone to his local doctor with strange symptoms. Over the next 5 months his symptoms continued to worsen until his death.
The young man told the hospital workers that he had gone to South or Central America on a business trip. He was attempting to earn enough money to buy a house for him and his girl so that they could get married. He had eaten the local food but could think of nothing that could have caused his symptoms, no injuries, or animal bites. One of my friends did thing he heard the young man had said, just before his death that he had sex with a local girl and it had been almost 9 months.
I have no idea as to how this could be accomplished. Are there spells that could do such a thing, or maybe so kind of mind power? Or does this just sound like a work of fiction to y’all?
Droopy Dawg