Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Someone was born under a lucky star

We had a young electrical worker in the department a few days ago who was shocked across the chest with over 7,000 volts of electricity while working up in a bucket on some power lines.

He came in sitting up in the stretcher, talking, making jokes. His chief complaint was "it feels like my insides are being microwaved." Being very detail-oriented, he later adjusted this to "it feels like I ate a huge bowl of spicy chilli" (admitting that he'd never had his insides microwaved so couldn't be entirely sure that was accurate).

He ended up having no complications other than some skin burns, but we all kept nervously walking by his room waiting for his heart to stop or his spleen to explode or something.

Lucky, lucky, lucky man.

The cell phone in his breast pocket was still working too.

His shirt was singed to pieces.

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