In Aurora, An Uncommon Brain Saves A Young Composer's Life

[vta]

Cool story coming from that mess...

Petra Anderson is a gifted 22-year-old composer and violinist who was critically injured in the movie theater shootings last Friday in Aurora, Colo. She was shot four times. Three shotgun pellets landed in her arm and a fourth nearly killed her.

That fourth shot went in through Anderson's nose and rode up the back of her cranium. Not only did she survive her injury, but according to her family and friends, she is on her way to a full recovery — thanks to a previously undiagnosed congenital anomaly. Instead of hitting her brain, the bullet traveled instead along a tiny extra tube of fluid. That defect channeled the bullet away from inflicting severe brain injury.

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[nablives]

I'm not very religious, but God bless her. I hope she kicks tons of arse for the rest of her life.

 

[vta]

I'm not very religious, but God bless her. I hope she kicks tons of arse for the rest of her life.

He sure did.
A defect saved her life.

 

[masomenos]

This reminds me of an article I read about a store clerk who was shot during a robbery. When he underwent surgery, the doctors discovered an malignant tumor that likely would have gone undetected until cancer had spread to the rest of his body. They removed the bullet and the tumor and likely saved his life twice in the same procedure.

Just one of those serendipitous events where a seemingly bad thing is transformed into something good.

 

[Phoenix]

Wow, this is amazing!