A 17-year old boy shot himself in the head at Mira Loma High School in Sacramento. The shot failed to be fatal, and he ended up on life support in a nearby hospital. After failing his suicide attempt, he will be lucky if he doesn't end up with brain damage.
I know someone who was shot in the head at point blank range. The doctors said a third of his brain was damaged by hemorrhaging and that if he lived he would not have the use of one side of his body and would not be able to talk or reason any longer. We prayed. The next day the doctor said he was amazed, that the damage was now smaller than before. We prayed. The doctor's report again was that the damage was smaller than the day before. In no time he was walking, talking, doing rubrics cubes like he had before the injury much to the complete amazement of the doctor.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to forgive me for being skeptical. I would like some convincing evidence before considering the account credible.
ReplyDeleteAre there any good medical studies which show that a misdiagnosis of hemorrhaging after trauma is very unlikely? This would be my first guess at what happened, where the doctor overestimated the extent of damage, but I'm ignorant on how likely this is.
As for the account itself, are there any videos of the victim before and after the shot which support the account? Is there any newspaper article? Any references in the medical literature such as in PubMed?
It would be nice to have concrete references so I could ask around whether prayer had an actual effect or whether your account is just confirmation bias, which seems to be the most common cause for crediting the supernatural for mundane events. (The second most common cause seems to be outright lying, although you don't sound like you're one of these cases.)
But it's good to hear that the victim you describe ended up with no lasting damage, which I hope would also be true for the suicide attempt victim in the blog post.