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  • The Pathology Of A Human Balloon

    31 May 2011 by Jasmine Stone in World
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    Every year Proctologists treat thousands of patients who, having suffered the misfortune of unwittingly lodging foreign objects into their nether regions, plead astonishment as to the location of the object… “Doc, I really don’t know how it got up there. I just sorta fell on it.” But the trajectory of the object in this story rings altogether accidental: A New Zealander very nearly exploded after literally falling on a high-pressure hose.

    New Zealand trucker, Steven McCormack, was working on his tractor trailer at a petrol station when he slipped and fell onto a broken high pressure air valve. The nipple of the valve punctured his left buttock and drove air at 100 pounds per square inch into every possible space in his body, doubling his volume, separating fat from muscle and compressing his lungs and heart.

    McCormack described the experience:

    The sensation was like when you’re diving with the bends, and you have to go back down to let the air pressure come off your body.

    I could hear the sound of the air going into me and the people walking around me, but they didn’t want to get near because of what they could see, it wasn’t a very nice sight.

    His boss and two co-workers tried to get him off the valve, but it acted like an anchor, so he was stuck. Even when they did shut off the airflow, the tank had already pumped half of its volume into McCormack.

    Medics struggled to treat him as his body was under so much pressure that needles would pop right out and breathing tubes had to be inserted through his torso into his lungs. It took almost three days for McCormack to shrink back to his normal size and miraculously he has sustained no lasting injuries, aside from the comic torture that he is certainly suffering given the nature of this freak accident.

    [Source : KTLA]

     

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