The 22-year-old boy shocked the medicine because he survived the accident

The boy can say is the luckiest, or the worst bad luck in the world. He survived a terrible accident.

Brock Meister - a 22-year-old boy in Plymouth (Indiana, USA) is a case where his fate is sometimes like a . joke. Because depending on the angle, this guy is either an extremely unlucky person, or a very lucky person.

Meister's life is a series of tragedies. When he was born, the boy Meister could not breathe, seized convulsions and was only pulled back from Death by resuscitation in time. He must also spend puberty with chemotherapy and radiation therapy for malignant brain cancer.

But it is still nothing compared to the Meister accident encountered in early 2018. The accident caused Meister almost . lost his head.

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The injury caused Meister to almost lose his head.

The accident was horrifying

On a night in 1/2018, Meister, his cousin and a friend are on the drive back home. Because Meister was a little drunk, the friend was driving.

They planned to return to the friend's grandparents' house, a short distance away. However, they could not go all the way. A large but transparent ice sheet was there, lying on the darkest corner of the road. The wheelchair, and tragedy happened.

The car hit the road, crashing into a ditch. Meister swung to the side, head plugs through the glass door. The driving force left from the car kept the body moving, while the head remained stuck in that sharp glass window.

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Brock Meister at the hospital.

"My head plugs through the window. Even though I still wear a seatbelt, the other half is out the window. My brother pulls me back. I still remember the blood running down my face." horrifying carving.

At that time, Meister thought the situation was not serious, except on the face wound.

"My neck hurts, but I still want to sit up. Fortunately, my friend stopped me from doing that, saying I should wait for ambulance."

Later, doctors assessed the friend's actions as what saved Meister's life. Because at the hospital, the doctors discovered that Meister's skull was separated from the spine .

In medicine, this phenomenon is called " internal decapitation."



According to Kashif Shaikh, neurosurgeon specialist from Memorial Hospital in Indiana, this is one of the most deadly cases. So, the fact that Meister still lives is indeed a miracle of shocking the medical world.

Shaikh explained, luckily, preventing Meister from sitting up helped him escape from death.

"It was the most dangerous period, because Meister was like a doll at the time, and the head could" fall "at any time," Shaikh said.

"It is rare for such cases to survive before reaching the hospital. Even if the hospital is safe, survival will increase significantly."

In Meister's case, his body was kept very stable, carefully removed from the car, then placed on a long stretcher and transported to the hospital. The whole process if there was a small mistake was enough for him to permanently leave.

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Meister at the present time.

But in short, Brock Meister was safe, even though it took months of treatment. At the present time, he has recovered about 50% of the neck movement as before the accident.