Doctors, What's Your "How The Heck Did You Even Survive?" Moment?

doctors of reddit what was your how the fck did you survive that moment an elderly lady had a massive brain hemorrhage was transferred to terminal care to the health center in patient ward i was working at as the doctor her prognosis was that she would die at any moment there was no treatment she was comatose but breathing spontaneously through a tracheotomy tube a week passed with no medications no food no fluids still alive then she began to stir came conscious delirious but conscious so we started iv fluids appropriate medications and eventually physiotherapy after a few months she moved into the local nursing home lived for a few years she had profound dementia but was able to move i wonder if the air moisturizing device in the room because of the tracheotomy kept her hydrated because a healthy person would generally not survive a week without fluids not yet a doctor but i work as a paramedic and soccer events being from argentina it can be pretty freaking intense there was this time when we were at the stadium with my colleagues and three guys carry a fourth guy covered in blood and totally unconscious his pulse rate was berserk and we got kinda worried while we start strapping him to the stretcher i asked the other dudes wtf had happened and they told me he fainted fell down the stairs and as he didn't respond we gave him some seat to wake him up we rushed him to the ambulance and within the first 10 minutes the guy walks out and asks for a sandwich humans work in mysterious ways not a doctor my dad who is one told me this story once he has this 12 year old patient let's call him tim and everyone in the hospital firmly believes he's immortal tim was born with a bad heart and is constantly in and out of the iq by in and out of the iq he goes in almost once or twice a month nine out of ten admissions tim flatlines strangely tim always comes back even if you don't resuscitate him i'd say tim flatlined about 15-ish times in total it's at the point that whenever tim flatlines nobody panics not even his mom in the first three times she fell on the floor crying hey guys tim's vitals are dropping again we the kids definitely going for a record tim's pretty chill about it too he talks about his iq trips like how a normal kid talks about a mildly eventful day at school but nobody knows how tf does tim always come back he just does frankly i'm surprised the media hasn't done a story about it bc it's freaking metal okay now i want the annual updates on tim tim reached the big 3-0 today tim's had a good year and the aiku has been awfully quiet without his resilient spirit a patient in his late 90s was admitted to our hospice for terminal care i.e to die because of untreatable multi-level bowel obstruction confirmed on ct scan and clinically obvious from his swollen abdomen and profuse vomiting the guy was however absolutely charming and completely at peace with this he did want discomfort and felt he had had a good life he was scared to eat because of the vomiting it caused if your bowel is blocked then any eating has to go back out the way it came in otherwise he was comfy enough with just a little pain relief he was also lovely to chatter very reflective and articulate in his speech and mannerisms he had been told he had days possibly hours to live by the surgeons at the local hospital and he barely drank anything and ate literally nothing this continued for two months although he lost a tremendous amount of weight and physical capability it seemed that during this time his bowel obstruction had spontaneously unobstructed we ended up getting him home the sad thing is however he had completely come to terms with his death he is now still petrified of eating and believes super strongly that his bowel is going to obstruct again which it may he just doesn't ever want to go through that experience again and i do sometimes wonder if he would have been better off dying peacefully with us carotid blowout following free flap reconstruction in an oral cancer case had a post blowout hb of 30 no idea how she got away with it also when working at a military hospital the guy whose parachute didn't open and he ended up with just a fractured cheekbone like what i am not a doctor but when i around 23 i was stubborn and didn't go to the doctors for feeling weak and numb all the time with some blackouts i brushed it off until i literally couldn't get up to walk to the bathroom thinking it was just a cold or flu when i finally made it to the my blood count was a three regular is around 14. doctor said he didn't know how i was alive still imagine a doctor walking in all confused and being like son you don't got no blood early years in medical school i saw a surgery of a policeman who was shot in head in a gunfight the bullet went through his skull and brain with my experience in games and movies i always assumed a head shot is instant death but that man survived it and i was in shock how this can happen it turns out in many cases a head shot can be survived sorry for my english is not good your english is pretty good i understood you easily emergency physician i had a patient that was shot nine times three bullets to the head he didn't call an ambulance he brought himself to the emergency department and by that i mean he drove himself to the emergency department the three bullets in his head somehow didn't enter the cranium so his brain was just fine one of them entered his cheek and went underneath the skin to swing all the way around to the back of his head he was discharged the same day a doctor asked me this i was asleep in the back of a pickup on the way back from a rugby tournament one night and we had a head-on with a drunk driver i went through the back of the cab through the windscreen hit and bounced off the other car and ended up maybe 20 meters from the accident multiple broken bones compressed vertebrae internal and head injuries after multiple surgeries and a year in hospital i walked out at the first checkup the surgeon who i knew really well by then said exactly that seriously how the frick did you survive that my unvoiced response was sometimes i wish i hadn't i was the lucky one paramedic dispatched to shortness of breath and considering that a sub dispatch is typically bs i wasn't all that ramped up when we came on scene the fd beat us there and when we pull into the parking lot the junior ff is running out to the ambulance to get us and says we gotta get him out of here no biggie let's see how the other ff's are acting at the door the engine captain is looking stressed and says fittingly we gotta get him out of here not good but he's not a medic what does the medic think brian the medic is an absolute rock star whose judgment i trust under any circumstance brain says no crap we gotta get him out of here the patient is a 19yo male pale cool and sweaty skin massive air hunger and confused oxygen saturation is less than 70 percent we are eight minutes from the hospital if i have learned one thing in the last 12 years it's this if your patient tells you they're going to die believe them and root his hr tanked his pulses faded and his breathing slowed dramatically which as i am sure you know is bad start cpr yes but when we compress this kid opens his eyes and pushes us away doing cpr on a patient who's watching you do cpr on them is an interesting experience eventually he quit pushing us away so our job got easier we worked him all the way to the hospital the ed worked him for an hour and a half the epinephrine fluid nor ep etc briefly producing pulses before they'd again fade away there was a period of v fib and there too ugh eventually they managed to stabilize him but he didn't look good for our friend he began to seize and it looked like he was going to come out with considerable neurological deficit as you can probably guess he lived it was a big old saddle embolus or in layman's terms a huge clot blocking blood flow between between his heart and his lungs kid had a known cochilopathy that he didn't manage they told us on scene that he would joke that someday he'd just drop dead well not this time walked out of the hospital a week or so later without any deficit how i have no idea side note that was the last call of an 11-year run at that job couldn't imagine a better way to leave frick yeah if your patient tells you they're going to die believe them unless that patient is me because i'm an absolute drama queen i was screaming i feel like i'm gonna die when i was eight centimeters dilated while giving birth to my first daughter granted she was kinda stuck posterior face presentation and had been in labor for quite a while but i wasn't on my way out that's for sure obligatory not a doctor ex-nurse though this happened to my gran-in-law she was in her early 80s on blood thinners and took a nasty fall and hit her head quite a common injury unfortunately and she was admitted to hospital the amazing part is that for three days her condition worsened and the signs that she had a brain hemorrhage went unnoticed that is until she became unresponsive then we had all the bells and whistles she was airlifted to a larger hospital and i spent the day preparing my family for the worst the bleeding had gone unchecked for a long time and if she did survive prepare for her to be different that wonder woman woke up a few hours after surgery with zero impairment memory intact right up to hospital admission it was an amazing recovery that we're all very grateful for obligatory not a doctor but was attached to a hospitalist at a pretty big teaching hospital for the summer as like a clinical assistant this guy comes in for intentional foreign body ingestion he swallowed a knife about a three-inch blade and it was now lodged in his stomach the gastroenterology team got photos of it and prepped him and somehow removed it while he's on 24 hour watch to make sure he doesn't do it again he manages to get his hands on a pen someone from the gi team left in his room and swallows that too after it was taken out we had to basically leave all sharps pointy things and swallowables with the security guard before we could go into the room not a doctor so sorry but to contribute i will never ever forget a guy coming into the emergency ward with a freaking serrated combat knife sticking directly out of the top of his head he was walking himself in to this day i cannot comprehend that i read this one where this chick tripped over while cooking or something then started experiencing a bad headache she drove to the emergency room and found out that she had a knife sticking out of her head not a doctor this is a story about my dad's best friend or as he's more commonly known the human kebab so this guy decides to take his dogs out on a walk on a particularly cold scotland morning and on his way out slips on some ice unfortunately he landed on a metal pole that was being used to hold up flowers or something anyway this pole goes in through his side just under the rib cage i believe and exits through his neck after being rushed to the hospital and had x-rays and whatever done the doctors concluded that the pole had missed all vital organs veins and arteries and they basically just had to pull it out this all happened many years before i was born but it still absolutely blows my mind up vote for the human kebab glad he's okay not a doctor a family friend as a teen my friend's son had all sorts of bladder and kidney infections the doctors could not figure out what was causing them finally they did a scan of his whole abdomen to try to see what was going on if there was an obstruction or something else going on turns out he inserted a long wire up his whiner he said it felt good he lost his grip on the wire when it was almost all the way in and he couldn't figure out how to remove it he didn't tell a doctor or anyone because he was embarrassed and thought he would get yelled at he did a lot of damage up there mostly due to infections you hear about rectal foreign objects a lot but good god that's gnarly my husband was the patient his doctor even wrote him a letter congratulating him on his recovery he was jogging and had a heart attack collapsing on the side of the road a couple found him and called an ambulance he then arrested twice on the way to the hospital and had a balloon pump inserted on arrival with emergency surgery to replace a heart valve just 12 hours later to make matters even worse he then had secondary complications and ended up in the hospital for three months with a nasogastric tube in a really rough city in the u.s a young kid comes in as gsw to the head head and torso is completely covered with blood but he is still semi-conscious after pre-arrival for trauma code dead skin and hair are all macerated ace wrapped skull and sent to ct no brain injury grazed to the scalp left ama against medical advice from the hospital the next day after four units of blood he came back two weeks later with brain abscess due to him not taking antibiotics he lived needed a long course of i've antibiotics i had another guy who had a bad dream where he woke up and said some guys were standing over him that said take him out before his dream ended he kept on repeating himself i think i was shot in the head when he arrived i am chomping at the [ __ ] to examine him but the nursing staff have to traumatridge him to be a trauma before i can examine him i don't understand that to this day but anyway long story short they called him a trauma because he was repeating himself he had bullet that was sitting off of his petrous ridge that entered via ear canal no external bleeding he didn't live though he lasted 16 hours rolled well for the tough con saving throw but failed the simple and check later on i'm the patient at two and a half years old i had a stroke i was in a coma for about eight days none of the doctors could believe it because i guess it's unusual for someone to have a stroke that young before i woke up a doctor even told my parents to prepare for my death as i wouldn't make it well i still had brain activity reacted to my parents touching me talking to me not physically but they could tell by my brain activity eventually i opened my eyes and very slowly progressed to moving i had to relearn how to walk and talk as part of my brain had died surprisingly i really don't have any side effects i'm really lucky i had to re-learn how to walk and talk and got better at it than you could before i had a guy who took a 10-inch long metal pipe right between the eyes when we came in the pipe was sticking about four inches out of his face he was fully conscious and could move both eyes a little pale though when we got the images the tip of the pipe was about three millimeters from entering his brain stem dude made a full recovery paramedic here dispatch to a person who fell another update said unconscious last update about a minute or two before we got there was unconscious not breathing cpr in progress lady in her 40s is dead like for real she's cold has riga mortis pupils are fixed and dilated monitor shows a sisterly not only is she dead she's been dead for a while fire department is doing cpr but it seems futile at this point i call the hospital to talk to a doctor hey can we get orders to terminate resuscitation efforts on this patient i ask the physician on the other end now she seems kind of young and i know it's probably futile but go ahead and keep working and bring her on and was his reply that's cool no problem we will keep going we get the iv i interpret her give her some epinephrine put the thumper on her give some more ep some bicarb and holy crap she has a pulse now a week later she gets discharged from the hospital to rehab with only mild cognitive impairment basically she had to learn to use a spoon and fork again and she lost a week or two of her memory and that's the short story of how i tried to kill a lady but wound up getting an award for it so this happened in a third world country med student it's saturday evening pediatrics shift the neonatal service sends us a newborn the reason written is that they don't have enough places the newborn had very high crp an infection marker so very likely to die if he doesn't get the correct treatments he needs and this is implicitly the reason why he was sent to us they prefer to only keep the save able patient since their air and so many places the problem is that our service was for grown childs and it's not our specialization at all neurology plus endocrinology we don't have the necessary infrastructure to help that kind of children we don't even have the necessary drugs for our own speciality so for the others xd we need those heating beds since it's a newborn without them you can give any treatment you want you will have no results so after some fingering we improvised one we took some serums and we heated them in our oven then we surrounded the little boy with them and some random antibiotics but we knew it was only a provisional solution the inevitable would come one time or another a few hours later it's eight o'clock the shift is over we can go home we ray quite sad about the little child we tell him goodbye ah and as you may have already guessed on monday he was still more alive than many of the others technically speaking it was impossible to survive this long and we were genuinely impressed those babies are really good fighters i don't know if it's a good idea to tell this kind of stories on the internet to random strangers suru excuse me if i have hurt any of you guys during my internship i was working the free clinic and a man came in i'll call him d holding his own small intestine like a baby as i was the only doc in the clinic i was pretty freaked out anyway i paged trauma right away but his organs were outside his body for too long and he became septic and sadly did not make it i still find it amazing that dee was able to walk nearly six miles holding his intestine that's incredible while being investigated for muffins they discovered a pda i was 12 and had no symptoms except mild tiredness after exercise i had surgery two weeks after the diagnosis i was also exceptionally anemic at the same time they had no idea how as i ate a healthy diet anemic with a dodgy heart and a family history of hemachromatosis excess iron then a decade later it was discovered i had value regurgitation in my heart then a bundle branch block this was only discovered because i had pneumonia then another murmur was discovered this year because my echo records were missing and my gp wanted to have a listen so i got them redone i suspect if i see a gp for a flu shot they'll discover i've had three heart attacks or something surgical in turn year guy came in from a hang gliding accident where he fell when a strong gust of wind blew him out of the sky luckily maybe unluckily he fell into a grove of trees he presented to the trauma bay with a stick coming out of eye saying he couldn't see out of that eye but had vision in the other initially we were impressed that he survived a 100-foot fall from the sky but then we got the ct scan turned out the stick actually went through his eye across his skull and almost to the other side about 7.5 inches inside his head he amazingly was still conscious and talking before he underwent a 15-hour long surgery involving ant neurosurgery and ophthalmology aside from losing the one eye he made a full recovery not the doctor but had one once say that i was lucky to have survived albeit not a really exciting or dramatic story in gym class back in high school we were playing indoor field hockey was supposed to have been using foam or soft plastic equipment for safety someone grabbed the regulation grade field hockey ball by mistake regular balls are solid plastic maybe with a cork rubber center i ended up taking a slap shot to the side of my head behind my eye but in front of my temple at maybe a beater away tops from a kid that played ice hockey at just on the national level my glasses exploded into many pieces leg fell off frames snapped at different spots lens shattered and a mild concussion not really sure how just going by the note i had to turn into my school preventing me from participating for three weeks doctor said if i wasn't wearing glasses and took that full force it would have shattered my eye socket and if not killing me by hitting my temple i read that as your leg fell off took me another read to figure it out urologist here not native speaker so a girl who is 14 years old gets delivered to us with eurosepsis we get it under control and she recovers no biggie but later she came always back with acute urinary tract infections at that age it's pretty rare so we done as a steroscopy it's like an examination where we push a camera through the urethra to the bladder to look what's going there and the bladder had a few birthday candles inside you know the small thin birthday candles don't know if you have it in usa so this girl caused herself a lot of acute infections because she apparently had the hobby to push birthday candles in her urethra your english is good enough for me to understand what happened which is unfortunate pretty sure my urethra screamed when i read that if you are new to the channel you can subscribe i publish new videos every day until then check another video [Music] bye for now

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Length: 23min 5sec (1385 seconds)

Published: Sun Jul 26 2020