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Teen's Heart Stops, Restarts 4 Days Later

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jpeyton

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I wouldn't trust that heart further than I could throw it.

It failed once. What happens if it goes south again?
 

randay

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I hope he got the extended warranty this time.


Proof of God?, or container of crazy purple knockout gas!!?
 

Mrvile

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Originally posted by: Alkaline5
Originally posted by: Aflac
God should've recharged him when his heart gave out in the first place.

:)
:confused: Maybe your heart just stopped, but God restarted it instantly so that no one would ever know. Makes you think.

:( God is messing with me...
 

randay

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Originally posted by: Mrvile
Originally posted by: Alkaline5
Originally posted by: Aflac
God should've recharged him when his heart gave out in the first place.

:)
:confused: Maybe your heart just stopped, but God restarted it instantly so that no one would ever know. Makes you think.

:( God is messing with me...

It happened to Chris Farley all the time!
 

JujuFish

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Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Aflac
God should've recharged him when his heart gave out in the first place.

:laugh:

Run it's zombie boy.

They call it devine intervention but wouldn't he be dead if he wasn't on the bypass machine?

There you go using logic again...;)

Didn't you know? God invented the bypass machine.

Because it would be illogical to think that a supreme being who supposedly knows all would realize the boy would be put on a bypass machine. ;)
 

randay

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Originally posted by: JujuFish
Originally posted by: JulesMaximus
Originally posted by: Bootprint
Originally posted by: Amused
Originally posted by: Aflac
God should've recharged him when his heart gave out in the first place.

:laugh:

Run it's zombie boy.

They call it devine intervention but wouldn't he be dead if he wasn't on the bypass machine?

There you go using logic again...;)

Didn't you know? God invented the bypass machine.

Because it would be illogical to think that a supreme being who supposedly knows all would realize the boy would be put on a bypass machine. ;)

and that he was born with a messed up heart, and that it would stop one day and he would have to spend some time in a hospital, and that doctors would repair his heart, and that everyone on atot would call shens on his ass because he didnt post any pics of his gf.
 

91TTZ

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If you're only 17 and your heart just randomly stops, are you going to trust it after it randomly starts back up again?

Good for the kid, though. I hope everything works out for him.
 
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Whether or not you believe it was God's intervention/miracle or scientific mystery, it is still amazing for this kid to be alive again.
 

bctbct

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Seems like Man cheated God, he had his say when he stopped the kids heart. Good he is alive though.
 

Jeff7

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Originally posted by: jpeyton
I wouldn't trust that heart further than I could throw it.
It failed once. What happens if it goes south again?
It never failed at all. It was created perfect because God created it. It stopped exactly like it was supposed to so that God could instill hope into those who were briefly grief-stricken by their relative's sudden heart failure.


Originally posted by: bctbct
Seems like Man cheated God, he had his say when he stopped the kids heart. Good he is alive though.
"Come home, my son. Welcome to Heav....oh dammit, those doctors are interfering again! Sorry kid, you're staying on Earth. Do me a favor and ditch your health insurance plan; I'll catch you next time."

 

bamacre

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Actually, even the the doctor proclaimed it to be a miracle. ;)

:thumbsup: for Science
:thumbsup::thumbsup: for God
 

us3rnotfound

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It musta taken that long to get the new CPU shipped from Newg

It happens, I know as I live in Indiana and usually the parts come from Cali :)
 

RaistlinZ

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Originally posted by: Amused
Teen's Stopped Heart Starts Up Days Later
AP
NEW YORK (Feb. 12) - Daniel Walker was on his final lap jogging in his high school gym class when he collapsed, his flawed heart giving out on him.

Days later, his heart at a standstill, kept alive by a bypass machine, it began beating again. The 17-year-old's parents called it divine intervention. His physicians were no less amazed.

"I've been a surgeon for 10 years, and this is probably one of the most incredible things I've ever seen," said Dr. Abeel Mangi, one of Walker's cardiac surgeons at New York-Presbyterian Hospital Columbia.

Walker's father described his son's recovery in spiritual terms. "God turned around, put His hand on my son, and recharged him," said William Walker, 58, a retired sanitation worker.

His son's ordeal began Jan. 19 when he collapsed in gym class. The younger Walker suffered from a rare congenital heart flaw that left his coronary artery pinched, giving him only 10 percent of normal heart capacity. He was shuttled to two hospitals before finding himself at Columbia, waiting for a heart transplant, attached to the bypass machine.

Walker's cardiac surgeons said they could not account for the young man's recovery.

"It's a miracle," Mangi said. "There's really no other way to put it."

Two days after it began to beat on its own, surgeons were able to fix the flaw in Walker's heart, increasing its capacity to 60 percent.

Um, ok..... WTF was this kid doing running laps when he knew he only had 10% heart capacity? :roll: How stupid do you have to be?

It was a good thing God had an extra Pheonix Down lying around.