Man declared dead feels 'pretty good'

[DJFyrewolf36]

A bit of good news...seems like a miricle to me!

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080324/...fe_st/not_dead
Mon Mar 24, 10:09 AM ET
AP Article


OKLAHOMA CITY - Four months after he was declared brain dead and doctors were about to remove his organs for transplant, Zach Dunlap says he feels "pretty good"

Dunlap was pronounced dead Nov. 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested.

As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.

On Monday, he and his family were in New York, appearing on NBC's "Today."

"I feel pretty good. but it's just hard ... just ain't got the patience," Dunlap told NBC.

Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, said he has no recollection of the crash.

"I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember," he said.

Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.

"I'm glad I couldn't get up and do what I wanted to do," he said.

Asked if he would have wanted to get up and shake them and say he's alive, Dunlap responded: "Probably would have been a broken window that went out."

His father, Doug, said he saw the results of the brain scan.

"There was no activity at all, no blood flow at all."

Zach's mother, Pam, said that when she discovered he was still alive, "That was the most miraculous feeling."

"We had gone, like I said, from the lowest possible emotion that a parent could feel to the top of the mountains again," she said.

She said her son is doing "amazingly well," but still has problems with his memory as his brain heals from the traumatic injury.

"It may take a year or more ... before he completely recovers," she said. "But that's OK. It doesn't matter how long it takes. We're just all so thankful and blessed that we have him here."

Dunlap now has the pocketknife that was scraped across his foot, causing the first reaction.

"Just makes me thankful, makes me thankful that they didn't give up," he said. "Only the good die young, so I didn't go."

[RICHARD]

I bet you that first beer after he woke up tasted pretty good....

But then again,

HEY, I THINK HE MOVED!

I KNOW! Take my swiss army knife and scrape the bottom of his foot! I saw it on a old episode of Scrubs! DUDE! Stick it under his fingernail!!!!

Things that he is thankful for.

No one had knitting needles handy.
No one had a colonic kit ready.
No one had a Slurpee on hand.
Need I say it? No one was packing a gun.
No one wears hats anymore. (Have you seen the size of a hatpin?)


Things to do when you get home.
Buy a helmet.....forget it....

Sell the ATV.

Forget the forget the organ, take up piano lessons!

Get some new friends. Eventually you will get drunk and pass out, prompting some wise arse to go poking you with a pocketknife so you will wake up.

Work on a real stupid pickup line for the chickie babes....mention that you'd like to donate an 'organ' to her and see if you get slapped.


I'll be here all week! don't forget to to tip your servers!

[DJFyrewolf36]

Badum-tiss lol You crack me up RICHARD

[Sirrahsim]

Dude... I have been to that ER.. Thankfully all of my doctors seemed competent enough. One of the docs did suggest that I try a certain pill "one more time" after it nearly gave me a heart attack though Needless to say I ignored that bit of advice.

The pocket knife thing doesn't surprise me a bit. We are down south, after all