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Old 07-12-2008, 11:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Exclamation Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

John just told me about it... There's links to some pretty graphic pics... What kills me is that not only did she survive, but the knife somehow untouched her eye, and missed hitting her brain stem or main artery to the brain!
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BATTLE GROUND, Wash. - A bizarre accident left a woman with a knife lodged deep in her head and what is so amazing is that she actually survived.

"I'm not afraid to die," said 72-year-old Mary Townsen. "I guess that's it."

Townsen was pulling weeds at her home in Battle Ground when she set a knife down with the blade up and then tripped when she went to turn around, landing right onto the knife.

A neighbor girl who was shooting baskets across the street when the accident happened and immediately ran inside to get her mom, Kelly Eldred.

"When I get to the edge of my driveway, I can see Mary in this driveway and she's kind of like walking funny and screaming, kind of quiet," she said. "It was erie, like a monster movie almost."

Townsen said she remembers wondering whether she should take the knife out or not.

"She kept saying 'call my daughter, my daughter's a nurse, she can come over and just pull it out.'" said Eldred. "I'm like 'Mary, we're not going to do that.'"

Instead, Eldred called for help.

When the ambulance arrived, the paramedics could not believe what they were seeing and police wanted to know if a violent attacker was on the loose.

Meanwhile, there was Townsen with a knife lodged in her brain, through her left eye socket. Amazingly, she said it didn't hurt.

"It didn't," she said. "No pain at all."

Her husband, Chuck, wasn't home when all of this happened. During her ambulance ride, she tried to get the paramedics to take a detour so she could tell him what happened. They didn't listen to her and instead took her directly to the hospital.

"This was really a bizarre one," said Dr. Kent Grewe, a Neurosurgeon at Legacy Emanuul Hospital who happened to be on call that day.

Dr. Grewe had not seen Townsen since she left the hospital with an unknown prognosis, which was nearly 2 1/2 years ago. The two met again for this story and Townsen told the doctor "thank you for saving my life."

After all this time, Townsen still wanted to know how and why she survived. The answer is in her CAT scan, which shows the knife just missed her brain stem and also just missed the main artery to her brain.

So how did Dr. Grewe get the knife safely out of Townsen's head? As it turned out, it wasn't that hard at all.

"We took it out and nothing happened," he said. "It's like, remember the Sword in the Stone?"

There was barely any bleeding and her eyeball was somehow untouched.

However, Townsen did have problems. She could not read, write, add or subtract and she had to use a walker.

Eventually, a year passed and that is when Townsen's husband announced it was time for her to learn to drive again. He taught her and then passed away two weeks later after a long battle with cancer.

Townsen's abilities have been slowly coming back since the accident and every week she says she gets a little bit better.

"I think God kept me on this earth to tell other people not to be afraid to die," she said. "Unless you're real, real bad," she added jokingly.

Photos: WARNING - IMAGES ARE VERY GRAPHIC | KOMO News - Seattle, Washington | Content
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Old 07-12-2008, 01:41 PM   #2 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

Holy cow! How in the world did that miss her eye?!?!?!
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Old 07-12-2008, 02:04 PM   #3 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

Those pictures are horrible She's lucky to have survived.
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Old 07-12-2008, 02:11 PM   #4 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

Talk about God being on your side....
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Old 07-12-2008, 02:12 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

Ewwwwww... Those are graphic!!!!
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Old 07-13-2008, 08:56 AM   #6 (permalink)
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WHOA, Someones looking out for her!
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Old 07-14-2008, 12:57 PM   #7 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

Wow. She has someone lookin out for you. I'm surprised she didnt die from that and how in the world did that miss her eye?!?
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Old 07-15-2008, 03:35 PM   #8 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

I agree she had someone looking out for her. That is awful and I can't imagine the fear she went through. I'm glad she is recovering well. I looked at the photos and shuddered. Poor woman.
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Old 07-15-2008, 08:26 PM   #9 (permalink)
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OMMG!!!!!! Thats scary!
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Old 07-15-2008, 09:08 PM   #10 (permalink)
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Re: Woman falls head-first onto knife... and survives

OMG, im not looking at the pictures, cause i feel sick just by hearing about them ...god, that was bad..
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Old 07-18-2008, 08:44 AM   #11 (permalink)
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Oh my those pictures are horrible. She's very lucky to have survived. Thank god someone found her
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Old 07-23-2008, 04:17 PM   #12 (permalink)
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Wow, that knife was deep! I love stories like this; where everyone comes out all right and can joke about it.
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