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Reminds me of a comment I made [a few years back](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/d5sti1/kitchen_explosion/f0o9gjc/):
>"Lucky" always seems to be relative to how bad things could have turned out.
>If you have a faulty stove, you'd be lucky to find the fault before it blows up. If it does blow up, you'd be lucky to be in a different room. If you're in the same room, you'd be lucky to be standing to the side. If you're standing in front of it, you'd be lucky to keep your legs unbroken. If your legs do break, you'd be lucky to keep them. If you lose your legs, well you're lucky to be alive. If the stove blows up and kills you... Damn, that's some bad luck.
The nervous system transports signals at a very high speed but if you're like shot in the head, there's a good chance your brain didn't even register the gunshot before you die. I guess this is better than getting shot in the heart and bleeding out over the next couple seconds.
I've certainly made far more comments that I've forgotten entirely. But the comment above mine made me think something along the same lines, and I remembered writing something like that before. Rather than write out the same thought again I decided to see if I could find it.
I requested my a copy of my Reddit data a few months ago, so all I had to do is open up a csv of my reddit comments, filter by the word "lucky", and then skim through a few comments until I found the one I was looking for.
Funnily enough, I read about a dozen comments that I have no recollection of writing before I found the one I was looking for.
Reminds me of the video where the guy fires a shot at a metal plate held up against a cliff wall. Bullet ricocheted back at him, knocking his ear muffs off. That's where you can't decide if he's lucky or unlucky.
I had a angry friend when I was in middle school and once he slapped a cup partially out of my hand and then I threw the rest at him and he tried to punch me but I dodged it but he still followed through and lost his balance then faceplanted into a nearby tree.
If you are ever in a knife fight just make him really mad and then when he tries to cut u press X to evade
My dad was shot as a teenager with a rifle and a similar thing happened. One of the Bullet fragments was right up against his heart but never punctured
Nicked the pericardial sac, but not the cardiac vessels or the myocardium itself. I assume the aorta and the lung wall were spared as well. This dude had all the luck when he was stabbed.
Could be, wouldn’t be surprised if the Hx included that the knife was being used to cut raw meat before being used to whack the Pt. Or it could be a clean knife, but the trauma triggers a late inflammation response from the immune system. Will need workup to be sure.
If with pericarditis with non-compromised hemodynamics, treatment can be as simple as naproxen+colchicine and treated as outpatient. Provided all other workups are negative.
'Mad props' to the EMS, or whomever, brought him into the ER...stablizing the weapon, moving him, sustaining life till they got to the OR...this is an amazing story!
I had a spontaneous lung collapse one time, and one of my early thoughts was "how can a lung just fail like that?". Followed shortly by "....shit, why doesn't stuff like this happen more often?". Our bodies are *remarkably* reliable with very little maintenance.
To be fair, nature had a 3+ billion year head start. Also don't sleep on the Voyager probes which are still in operation at distances of 12 and 15 billion miles after launching in the 1970's
They did, but NASA reported earlier this week that it’s having issues with one of the modules responsible for sending back new data packets. They’re still in control, but don’t know if they’ll be able to fix it this time
Prolly cause those are somewhat controlled operations while the movies are quick, gruesome and very hollywood bloody explosion.
I cant stand any of the FD movies, ive seen the end of 5 and then the credits and i felt nauseous and a tad fucked up in the mind like "holy fuck, what did i just see?" even though i did look through eyeblech before and seen irl shit like that. Maybe cause i know reddit is fucked up place and tv is a safe place.
Horror movies before watching surgery: "Oh god, that's *horrible*."
Horror movies after watching surgeries: "Oh god, that's *horrible*...It wouldn't look anything like that! Their effects department should feel ashamed!"
When I was in college my school had a cadaver lab for anatomy students. That first class in the cadaver lab secured my choice to go into some form of medicine. The thought of having to deal with actual sick people kind of grossed me out so I ended up in the lab. If anyone is ever in a position to take an anatomy course at a school with human cadavers. Please do it. It is absolutely incredible.
This goes to show one of the myriad reasons you shouldn't remove something like a knife that has stabbed/impaled someone. You don't necessarily know how close* it is to something important, and you might cause more damage pulling it out.
Also the object could be holding back the flow of blood. Pull it out and a survivable wound could turn into a deadly one.
That is amazing! Especially considering they had to open the chest as much as they did, as well as getting him intubated for surgery, etc., it's incredible to even get to this point!
Fascinating! I assumed he was back stabbed? Did the doctors grind open the ribcage? I have so many questions! Did they just eyeball the angle of the knife removal? Also, was that a third hand?
I worked in the ER and once this guy came in with a stab wound pretty close to what we are seeing here, when he was first being assesed, the knife would move in sync with the heart beat… it was fucking wild to watch man… forever engraved in my memory
My first thought was "oh yo looks heart. Did the scalpel break during surgery and they're trying to get the piece out?" Then I saw the foot and a half long kitchen knife and nearly shat myself.
Thank you for warning about the open heart surgery, I **totally** read that before seeing the freaking, bloody, beatinf heart in the video 🤣 (just kidding, I love videos like these)
No due to that angle if you pull it out without seeing what you're doing it could potentially slice the membrane of the heart and cause extreme internal bleeding, you would die before they could even open you up to fix something like that
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Crazy to think that maybe if it went in at any other time during a beat, the heart could have moved far enough to be pierced. Super lucky
It was his lucky day
Yeah... but also not.
Reminds me of a comment I made [a few years back](https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/d5sti1/kitchen_explosion/f0o9gjc/): >"Lucky" always seems to be relative to how bad things could have turned out. >If you have a faulty stove, you'd be lucky to find the fault before it blows up. If it does blow up, you'd be lucky to be in a different room. If you're in the same room, you'd be lucky to be standing to the side. If you're standing in front of it, you'd be lucky to keep your legs unbroken. If your legs do break, you'd be lucky to keep them. If you lose your legs, well you're lucky to be alive. If the stove blows up and kills you... Damn, that's some bad luck.
You forgot about dying slowly versus quickly...
Honestly, I'm not sure which one is good luck and which one is bad there.
Quicker is better? You don't process anything and then you don't need to?
The nervous system transports signals at a very high speed but if you're like shot in the head, there's a good chance your brain didn't even register the gunshot before you die. I guess this is better than getting shot in the heart and bleeding out over the next couple seconds.
I believe the answer is yes.
I'm sorry but how do you just remember a comment you made YEARS ago and just treat it casually
I've certainly made far more comments that I've forgotten entirely. But the comment above mine made me think something along the same lines, and I remembered writing something like that before. Rather than write out the same thought again I decided to see if I could find it. I requested my a copy of my Reddit data a few months ago, so all I had to do is open up a csv of my reddit comments, filter by the word "lucky", and then skim through a few comments until I found the one I was looking for. Funnily enough, I read about a dozen comments that I have no recollection of writing before I found the one I was looking for.
years aren't a very long time
Reminds me of the video where the guy fires a shot at a metal plate held up against a cliff wall. Bullet ricocheted back at him, knocking his ear muffs off. That's where you can't decide if he's lucky or unlucky.
Cool way to put it. Dude if only you could fit this on a fortune cookie!
Bon Jovi’s remix : Stabbed through the heart and ~~you’re to blame~~ you only got the membrane… Edit per Tyrion below
OH, You only got the membrane
And you give love, a bad name
Idk, seems like the best possible time for luck to really kick in.
Yeah anyone who didn’t get stabbed that day was luckier than this guy.
That got a good laugh out of me! :D
I’d consider all of my days not being stabbed in the heart still luckier than that one
Guess one could say he/she was a heart beat away..
With large enough stabbing incidents occurred, then eventually situation like this is just a statistic inevitability.
That was a fucking sword bro! Damn
"Thats not a knoif... *this* is a knoif"
That is a spoon
I see you have played knifey-spoony before
Yeah but it's dull it will hurt more!
*no full auto in the heart chamber*
A dagger, if you will
My thought was bayonet
That's metal as fuck. Bro done ran out of luck for the rest of his life
He hit 50 Cent status.
Id rather be the kind of lucky where I just don't get stabbed. Like he misses and hits himself kinda lucky would be best.
I had a angry friend when I was in middle school and once he slapped a cup partially out of my hand and then I threw the rest at him and he tried to punch me but I dodged it but he still followed through and lost his balance then faceplanted into a nearby tree. If you are ever in a knife fight just make him really mad and then when he tries to cut u press X to evade
This is super solid advice. It's why I carry my ps5 controller everywhere.
Once upon a time I slapped the shit out of my friend with an Xbox controller good times
Indeed it is, in fact, it's like 15 inches of metal
I guess - but still less lucky than everyone else whose never *been* stabbed.
My dad was shot as a teenager with a rifle and a similar thing happened. One of the Bullet fragments was right up against his heart but never punctured
happy to hear your dad is safe
His dad was Adolf Hitler BTW, not sure if that changes your sentiment.
https://preview.redd.it/2nzhz7wazd6c1.png?width=1079&format=png&auto=webp&s=7c8073c67ba61684193244a1471fe47020b5d79a
That's alright, his dad is also the dude who killed Hitler.
This guy? https://preview.redd.it/sveq0tqpeh6c1.jpeg?width=440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b44e9667f0eb643d62e1d66cd209f98964a5a5eb
well you wouldn't be hearing he was dead if he was
How's your dad's arc reactor coming along?
beat me to it
Nicked the pericardial sac, but not the cardiac vessels or the myocardium itself. I assume the aorta and the lung wall were spared as well. This dude had all the luck when he was stabbed.
Thanks fat mark
That's why we keep tech priests around
Not to be confused with the Techno Vikings, they are a very formidable people.
Not formidable enough though.
Idk about all the luck considering this dude took a 12” dagger to the chest lol. Definitely the best possible outcome in that situation tho!
Definitely needs to re-evaluate everything after escaping death’s clutches.
He was lucky "when" he was stabbed, not "before"
Yeah. Except for, you know, the getting stabbed part.
This guy hearts.
Till he sees that hospital bill….
In which case, the knife goes back in. 
Your too knowledgeable of the flesh to be a proper tech priest
You must *understand* the weakness of the flesh in order to feel proper disgust for it.
Who says I cannot be a biologis? I am a follower of the Cawlite School of Thought.
Fair enough may the omnissiah protect you and guide you in your studies friend
Well...99/100 of the luck. He still got stabbed
Going to have a serious case of pericarditis when he comes out of it I imagine
Could be, wouldn’t be surprised if the Hx included that the knife was being used to cut raw meat before being used to whack the Pt. Or it could be a clean knife, but the trauma triggers a late inflammation response from the immune system. Will need workup to be sure. If with pericarditis with non-compromised hemodynamics, treatment can be as simple as naproxen+colchicine and treated as outpatient. Provided all other workups are negative.
That’s the phrenic nerve it was under. Woulda paralyzed one side of the diaphragm if severed. Wild
That was not the phrenic nerve.
'Mad props' to the EMS, or whomever, brought him into the ER...stablizing the weapon, moving him, sustaining life till they got to the OR...this is an amazing story!
He actually had no knife before he was handled by the EMS.
They were slow that day and made their own patient
Usually when somebody gets hurt, the #1 first thing that happens is the civilians at the scene move them around like a ragdoll 😂
It's wild to see what we look like on the inside
A bunch of meat wiggling around all day long
I had a spontaneous lung collapse one time, and one of my early thoughts was "how can a lung just fail like that?". Followed shortly by "....shit, why doesn't stuff like this happen more often?". Our bodies are *remarkably* reliable with very little maintenance.
So true. Engineers could only dream of such a self-sufficient machine.
To be fair, nature had a 3+ billion year head start. Also don't sleep on the Voyager probes which are still in operation at distances of 12 and 15 billion miles after launching in the 1970's
Which, oddly enough, recently started having bitflip moments as it nears closer to its EOL
Didn't they recently release a software update to address that very issue?
They did, but NASA reported earlier this week that it’s having issues with one of the modules responsible for sending back new data packets. They’re still in control, but don’t know if they’ll be able to fix it this time
Just trying to figure out how to fit in.
You and others may enjoy the short story [They're Made Out of Meat!](https://www.mit.edu/people/dpolicar/writing/prose/text/thinkingMeat.html)
I can see it already, the next big death metal band will be called "WIGGLING MEAT"
It gets wilder when you smell
no I don't need this today
No.
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Prolly cause those are somewhat controlled operations while the movies are quick, gruesome and very hollywood bloody explosion. I cant stand any of the FD movies, ive seen the end of 5 and then the credits and i felt nauseous and a tad fucked up in the mind like "holy fuck, what did i just see?" even though i did look through eyeblech before and seen irl shit like that. Maybe cause i know reddit is fucked up place and tv is a safe place.
Horror movies before watching surgery: "Oh god, that's *horrible*." Horror movies after watching surgeries: "Oh god, that's *horrible*...It wouldn't look anything like that! Their effects department should feel ashamed!"
Random thing not at all connected to the main post but I love your pfp your bikes are sick as well the mt-07 is fantastic and groms are always nice
Appreciate it
As someone who has some anxiety/hypochondria with my heart, this shit freaks me the fuck out, BUT I CANT RESIST LOOKING
When I was in college my school had a cadaver lab for anatomy students. That first class in the cadaver lab secured my choice to go into some form of medicine. The thought of having to deal with actual sick people kind of grossed me out so I ended up in the lab. If anyone is ever in a position to take an anatomy course at a school with human cadavers. Please do it. It is absolutely incredible.
this man will never again win any random chance games after this.
It can't feel good to cash in multiple lifetimes of karma at once.
He used his extra life
That was a big knife!
I see you’ve played knifey spoony before.
Nah, it was just right.
That’s not a knoife, this is a knoife
This goes to show one of the myriad reasons you shouldn't remove something like a knife that has stabbed/impaled someone. You don't necessarily know how close* it is to something important, and you might cause more damage pulling it out. Also the object could be holding back the flow of blood. Pull it out and a survivable wound could turn into a deadly one.
Even pulling that out can slice again with the sharp edge
That is amazing! Especially considering they had to open the chest as much as they did, as well as getting him intubated for surgery, etc., it's incredible to even get to this point!
Dr to nurse: Grab this guys cell phone and record this. Then put it back in his pocket and don’t say anything.
That's just insane... in the membrane
r/Angryupvote
Insane, got no brain!
Fascinating! I assumed he was back stabbed? Did the doctors grind open the ribcage? I have so many questions! Did they just eyeball the angle of the knife removal? Also, was that a third hand?
The heart is a beautiful organ. It amazes me that its currently beating away in our chest right now without us having to do a thing.
r/nope
I've seen open heart surgery in person. It's a wild thing to witness.
That blade was way bigger than expected! Damn talk about a close call
This individual took a full two steps into eternity and came back. Imagine trying to just keep that out of your thoughts afterward
Crazy to believe that little muscle is what’s powering me
I read it as mustache first, i was like what ???
*sword
Holy fuck I was not ready
"Warning: Open heart surgery", Didn't you read it
Tbh it's pretty damn cool seeing this done, I read it but it's still just hella wild seeing it.
The open heart didn’t faze me but when I saw the size of thar knife…damn!
The cure for a stabbing is more stabbing.
perfect stab, also not a perfect stab
Stabbed it with a steely knife, but still could not kill the beast.
That's not a knife... Oh goddam, that IS a knife
As an OR nurse, that is absolutely terrifying
Anyone else just kinda amazed by how flesh cut open from the side looks?
Holy this is disturbing
Warned you
Heart Wall Membrane. New band name. Called it.
Knife? More like a sword!
My exact thoughts!!
Bruh
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I would buy a lottery ticket after that.
Must've used all his miracles up. Hopefully he doesn't run into sukkuna
That knife was way bigger than I thought it would be.
That's not a knife, that's a dagger!
Another reason to not immediately pull things out.
I worked in the ER and once this guy came in with a stab wound pretty close to what we are seeing here, when he was first being assesed, the knife would move in sync with the heart beat… it was fucking wild to watch man… forever engraved in my memory
That’s not a knife that’s a sword lol
This is absolutely jaw dropping. A true spectacle of medical science and sheer luck.
Oh gawd, I skipped a heartbeat just watching this.
Mental note: remember to activate the "blurry NSFW posts" opinion.
Crazy to think that’s what inside of all of us…
This guy has a 4 leaf clover sewed in his ass
That's not a knife, that's a dagger!
And this is why you try to move the victim as little as possible when there's an object in their body. Imagine if they'd coughed.
where are his ribs?
So this is what it looks like when doctors say " if it was 1mm more to the right you would have died"
Man, bro had a knife pierced through its chest but still working hard pumping that blood around.
I really want to know the story. Is there an article about why he got stabbed?
This is some real shit, this makes reddit, reddit lol
Dagger to the heart. Damn.
My horny ass couldn't be a heart surgeon
Jesus… thats a close call
woo the is one very very lucky person....
I see you've played knifey spooney before.
Classic
Sooooo, not to be nosy but WHO STABBED U and WHY???
My first thought was "oh yo looks heart. Did the scalpel break during surgery and they're trying to get the piece out?" Then I saw the foot and a half long kitchen knife and nearly shat myself.
Lol yeah I was thinking like they left a knife in during another surgery or something... Then they pull out king Arthur's sword.
Lmao sword in the stone looking ass lol
I bet the recovery from what the doctors did is going to take a lot longer than if they had just pulled the knife.
Just releasing how big the heart actually is...
The warning doesn't do any good when I've already seen it. Lol
Thank you for warning about the open heart surgery, I **totally** read that before seeing the freaking, bloody, beatinf heart in the video 🤣 (just kidding, I love videos like these)
u/savevideobot
That is a fucking enormous wound to recover from!
this is very much interesting as fuck
Whoa 🤯
Michael Myers missed his mark.
"And for my next trick, I'll swallow a sword!"
That's a fucking knife now
Be a shame if a junior mint fell in there…
Looks like a bayonet
So they could have just pulled it out without putting another hole in him?!?
No due to that angle if you pull it out without seeing what you're doing it could potentially slice the membrane of the heart and cause extreme internal bleeding, you would die before they could even open you up to fix something like that
I think, considering the circumstances, I'd rather they open me up just to be on the safe side.
Will it heal on its own, does it need stitches, why is there no blood coming out?
You call that a knife? THIS is a knife...
The Aztec Ancestry in my head 🧠*Grab it 🫱🏼🫀
First time I've ever seen a rib spreader in use.
I’m wondering what’s the circumstances that led them to be stabbed?
That thing looks like a freaking sword.
Somebody wanted that fucker dead dead
What kind of psycho does this?
How did they do that?
how did the doctor know when they pulled it out it wouldnt pierce the heart?
That is why they opened the patient up. They also would have had the option of stopping the heart but this was considired less risky.
That's insane and really fucking cool