People Who Somehow Survived Freak Accidents

huge thank you to Abbott for sponsoring this video you fell 10 survive at 17 years old on Christmas Eve in 1971 Julianne boarded lands of Flight 508 from Lima to pukalpa Peru with her mother and 90 other passengers only 25 minutes into the flight the plane began to violently Shake as it entered a thunderstorm looking out the window in horror Julianne saw bolt of lightning strike the wing of the plane chaos quickly erupted as the plane began tearing apart Julianne who is still buckled to her seat was ripped from the plane she fell ten thousand

feet through the sky into the dense Amazon jungle below she remained strapped to a row of seats which actually acted as a makeshift parachute and landed perfectly amongst the high canopy of the Jungle softening the crash concussed and rightfully traumatized by the disaster Julianne laid motionless on the jungle floor for an entire day when she came to she was alone in the rainforest having only sustained a broken collarbone a sprained knee gashes on her right shoulder and left calf Julian Rose to her feet found a bag of candy from bubble and proceeded to hike for

11 days until she was found by two lagers today she is known as Dr Julian Diller a prominent zoologist Who has traveled the world advancing the study of animal science and working in the same Peruvian jungle where she survived so if there's anything you should take away from this story it's this wear your seatbelt [Music] Phineas Gage had a 13 pound metal pole blasted through his skull and survived in 1848 then 24 year old Phineas Gage was working on a new railroad track in Vermont his job was simple literally just blow up rocks one day

after placing a charge in a hole he began packing sand with a tamping iron when suddenly the iron caught something in the sand probably a rock or a small piece of metal and created a spark this trip the charge and caused a massive explosion with Gage standing directly on top of that blast what happened next has been studied by doctors myself included for the last 150 years the blast rocketed the iron bar upward penetrating behind his left eye entering his brain and then exiting through the top of his skull finally Landing a full 80 feet

away when his fellow rail workers rushed over they were immediately devastated and shocked to see he was still alive despite a nearly 2 inch hole through his entire skull not knowing how to help in this dire situation the workers rushed him to a nearby Doctor Who was most definitely unprepared for such a gruesome injury despite some initial convulsions Gage never even lost Consciousness and in one of the most miraculous medical cases ever recorded he survived for 12 years but with one major caveat you see Gage is also considered a vital piece of medical history as

he led us to start believing the brain was actually responsible for controlling personality while Gage did survive the explosion it's documented that damage to his frontal lobe LED his personality to go through some major changes Dr Harlow who treated Gage following the accident said he is fitful irreverent indulging at times in the grossest profanity which was not previously his custom some who knew him have claimed it took him years to regain his personality reports over exactly how much his personality changed have been the cause of much debate over the years but regardless surviving a metal

pole flying through your skull is nothing short of a miracle [Music] Charleston cut off his own arm after being trapped by a boulder for a 127 Hours and survived and got a movie made about him while hiking alone in Utah Aaron crash landed into a canyon and had his right arm pained against the wall by an 800 pound Boulder strategizing with few good options he decided to wait and scream for help slowly drinking his limited water and eating his two burritos in chocolate bars unfortunately as the days passed and nobody came he began to get

desperate drinking water turned to drinking urine and eating his burritos turned to eating nothing with no help on the way Aaron had to rely on only himself and take matters into his own hand he took out the dusty dull blade in his multi-tool and began making his way through his own arm the pain was excruciating but the pain quickly turned to panic as he realized his dull blade would never be able to get through the bones in his arm that's when he realized he missed the Primitive tool at his disposal the boulder itself could be

his way out through sheer force of will and a rage that only comes after drinking your own pee for several days Aaron used The Leverage of the boulder to twist and break both the radius and ulna bones in his form after withering away in a canyon for 127 Hours Aaron had removed his entire arm created a makeshift tourniquet and freed himself from his natural prison allowing him to stumble out of the canyon where he was discovered by hikers Aaron survived and today continues to travel the world where he not only speaks about his harrowing Journey

but also navigates Rivers climbs mountains and Hikes Canyons foreign performed an emergency appendectomy on himself and survived in the middle of the 20th century Russia began aggressively exploring and conducting research in Antarctica and in 1960 sent an expedition to construct a base known as novel overskaya the team completed its construction in nine weeks and then had to wait out the winter until the ice thoughts so they could be brought back home because the team was effectively stranded at the base they brought along the doctor to ensure the crew could be treated for any illnesses or

injuries if they were to arise tragically Dr rogazov was the one who got sick after suffering several hours of unrelenting abdominal pain weakness and nausea Dr Rogers diagnosed himself with appendicitis or inflammation of the appendix that can cause severe pain and even death if left untreated knowing that there were no surgeons around he reached for all possible conservative methods to address his situation but unfortunately for the doctor none of them were effective leaving him with only one final Choice surgical removal of his appendix performed by himself on himself he recruited two medical assistants the team

meteorologist and the team driver to hold open the abdominal incision and hold a mirror to better visualize his surgical field seated upright in a hospital bed taking as many sterilization precautions as possible Dr rogasov began the operation the pain and fatigue was excruciating causing him to experience vertigo and take several pauses with his abdomen wide open nevertheless he continued he removed the perforated appendix and stitched himself back up over the course of just two hours after four days Dr rogerso bowel function returned to normal after five days his fever was gone after eight days his

stitches were removed and after two weeks he was back to performing heavy work on the base what a champ Michael Cassidy was split in half by a fire hydrant during a motorcycle crash and survived the 25 year old was riding his motorcycle down the street when he unexpectedly lost control of his back wheel at that moment Michael knew he was going to crash so in a split-second decision to mitigate damage he veered in between two cars in the hopes of finding some grass unfortunately Michael didn't see the fire hydrant hidden between the cars his body

flew full speed through the air directly into the hydrant when he came to he was lying face down but his legs were face up the hydrant had essentially split his pelvis into known as an open book fracture this is essentially a death sentence in most scenarios fortunately two off-duty nurses witnessed the brutal crash immediately rushing to his Aid and summoning an emergency helicopter to get him to the nearest Trauma Center upon his arrival doctors placed a special balloon catheter inside his femoral artery and slid It Up near his aorta once inflated this blocked blood flow

to his lower half reducing further blood loss and finally allowing doctors to get a good view of the damaged pelvis it worked multiple Medical Teams collaborated to repair his ruptured bladder reconnect blood vessels and reconstruct his entire pelvis with hardware and screws after a month of physical therapy Michael now walks with a limp passes waist through an ostomy bag and he and his wife just welcomed their first child without a balloon catheter to slow the blood loss and a ton of blood transfusions Michael wouldn't have made it receiving a transfusion can mean the difference between

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