Pezzy Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/09/19/...in5322589.shtml Pics on the website. Pretty crazy stuff!! Woman Impaled in Neck by Branch Is OK (CBS/AP) A northern Idaho woman who was impaled in the neck by a tree limb during a recreational drive over the Labor Day weekend says she "can't believe I'm here" to tell about it. Michelle Childers, 20, and her husband were driving down a rural road along a river in the north-central part of the state on Sept. 5 when a spruce tree crashed through the passenger side window of their pickup truck. Childers, a Kamiah, Ida. native, said on "The Early Show Saturday Edition" that, "It came out of nowhere. We had went around a blind corner and we're assuming that this tree was stuck out into the road and the way we took the corner, it just came in through the passenger window and stuck into my neck, and then broke off on the cab of the truck. But it happened so fast and it was loud, it was like an explosion. And I didn't know what happened. "I didn't feel it go in," Childers told co-anchor Erica Hill. "It just felt like a lot of pressure, like maybe a tree had fallen on me and was pinning me against the seat, is what I thought had happened. And then I had asked (her husband) Daniel (who happens to work in the timber industry), 'My gosh, what happened?' And he told me, 'It's in your neck.' And at that point, I was just -- 'Take a deep breath and we'll get through this.' " With no cell phone service in the area, the couple drove to the Lochsa Lodge, near the Idaho-Montana border, to call for help and arrived about an hour after the tree limb went into her. Daniel told Hill that driving that long under such pressure "was really bad. I about passed out a couple times." While Childers waited to be flown by helicopter to St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Mont., she said a nurse and her husband were staying at the lodge and tried to calm her down. "So, here I am sitting in a pickup with all these wonderful people around me and a 13-inch spruce limb with branches coming off it still in my neck," Childers told KHQ-TV. "She says, 'You look OK, and you're going to be fine.' And I believed her," Childers recalled for Hill. "And she said, 'You've been like this for a couple hours now. You're not bleeding. You haven't lost consciousness. You're going to be just fine.' And then, not too long after that is when I heard the helicopter. And was like, 'OK. I am going to be OK." The 13-inch tree limb was removed from her neck during a six-hour surgery, Childers says, and she was left wearing a large piece of gauze on the scar on left side of her neck. She told Hill she feels "lucky and grateful. ... I can't believe I'm here to look at the pictures" of her with the branch in her neck. Childers has the branch, but says the smell is still tough for her. And because of that, no Christmas tree this year. "I just don't want it in my house. It would be uncomfortable, I think," she remarked to Hill. Childers doesn't have insurance. Friends have set up an account for the couple at a local Sterling Savings bank location to help pay for her medical expenses. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
94extreme Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 oh man that's gnarly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoPathyGo Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 Let's hope she makes the most of her gift and doesn't throw it away like that fool DJ whatever. Survived a plane crash and what did he do ? ODed on drugs a year later. What a loser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toby Posted September 21, 2009 Share Posted September 21, 2009 20? And a husband? wtf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Wow, talk about the inanimate object jumping out at you and it no tbeing an excuse for once. Hopefully as said she makes the best of still beign around and don't waste it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fukinitupagain Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 Think of the wicked nice scar & the story she'll be telling the rest of her life! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoFuzzle Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 ...wow...That's NUCKIN' FUTS. I think that might be somewhat of an eye opener for her. I'm sure she's living life for real now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kittamaru Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 I have to wonder... how... It came in thru the side window? 0_o; Were they driving sideways or sommat? *blinks* Just not too sure how that happened. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Slick Posted September 22, 2009 Share Posted September 22, 2009 :ohno: my gawd............. that is one lucky lady! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 You can die tomorrow, any of you (myself included), why change anything, live. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 I have to wonder... how... It came in thru the side window? 0_o; Were they driving sideways or sommat? *blinks* Just not too sure how that happened. Drifting!!! And GG, I didn't say don't live... just make the best of it and not waste it. Left it open for whoever to think what their own opinion of wasting it is... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Drifting!!! And GG, I didn't say don't live... just make the best of it and not waste it. Left it open for whoever to think what their own opinion of wasting it is... Why change because you almost died? You almost die every day, but you are unaware of it most of the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Definatly a good solid point,can't argue that. Just made itself a bit obvious this time around for her. Hey maby it will make a boring loner into the fun free flowing people person, or could turn her into a hermet that never leaves the house again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Or she could "brush" it off and care less..... yeah, I being punny Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Precise1 Posted September 23, 2009 Share Posted September 23, 2009 Why change because you almost died? You almost die every day, but you are unaware of it most of the time. Reminds me of a joke... How do you know you have been partying to hard?? When the first words you hear when you wake up are "CLEAR!!!" B Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted September 24, 2009 Author Share Posted September 24, 2009 You can die tomorrow, any of you (myself included), why change anything, live. Better yet, change regardless, and enjoy your damn life, as you never know when you're gonna get run over by a bus. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fukinitupagain Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Better yet, change regardless, and enjoy your damn life, as you never know when you're gonna get run over by a bus. I thought she was impaled by a branch ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pezzy Posted September 24, 2009 Author Share Posted September 24, 2009 Was a general reference. In my case, you never know when you're gonna choke to death on your own spit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nunya Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Was a general reference. In my case, you never know when you're gonna choke to death on your own spit. Too many perverts who would take my reply to that out of context... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GrimGreg Posted September 24, 2009 Share Posted September 24, 2009 Was a general reference. In my case, you never know when you're gonna choke to death on the centapede on my banana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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