"Severed Hand" in the news

Great White North
Great White North Posts: 253
edited September 2008 in The Porch
http://www.ktvu.com/news/17527848/detail.html

Los Gatos Girl's Hand Severed In Tragic Accident

POSTED: 7:34 am PDT September 22, 2008
UPDATED: 8:07 am PDT September 22, 2008

LOS GATOS, Calif. -- A six-year-old Los Gatos girl whose hand was severed in a very unusual accident was recovering Monday, and may regain motion in her reattached hand, thanks in part to quick help from a passer-by.

Erica Rix was playing with a jump rope in the back of her mother's car two weeks ago when the end of the rope, fluttering out the window, caught on the car's axle. A loop of the rope tightened around the girl's wrist, slicing off her hand.

"I heard a thunk and thought, 'What was that?' " her mother Allison Rix, 32, told the San Francisco Chronicle Sunday.

With her daughter screaming in pain, Allison Rix pulled over the car over and went to her aid. She was shocked at what she found.

Jim Bailey, of Saratoga, was driving by when he saw the girl's mother calling hysterically for help. He made a tourniquet put of his belt to slow the blood flow from the wound. Another driver called emergency services.

Meanwhile, another motorist -- Gail Andrews -- located the girl's hand in the street, with the jump rope still wrapped around it, and stood in front of the severed limb to prevent other cars from running over it, the paper reported.

Erica Rix was rushed to the hospital where surgeons repaired the bones, veins and arteries in her reattached hand. Authorities said Erica Rix doesn't have feeling or movement, but doctors were hopeful to further repair her hand in upcoming surgeries.

After nine days in intensive care, Erica Rix was recovering at home.

Copyright 2008 by KTVU.com. The Associated Press contributed to this report. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed.
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  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,976
    sad...
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • Jeremys Spoken
    Jeremys Spoken Posts: 7,578
    Did I miss the joke you were trying to make?
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  • UndyTaker
    UndyTaker Posts: 358
    Wow, you're an asshole. A little girl has an accident and you make a joke about it. I hope you don't get mugged and raped some day by a crackhead bumb named Francis and someone makes a thread titled: "Dirty Frank" Strikes Again.
    I shit and I stink. I'm real, join the club.

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  • NeilJam
    NeilJam Posts: 1,191
    Read about that this morning. Hopefully this girl can fully recover and regain use of her hand. They were lucky others were willing to stop and help.
  • Given to...
    Given to... Wyoming Posts: 5,007
    I dont see anywhere where anyone mentions or intones a joke. Sad story. Coincidental title. OP was just sharing info, and I hardly doubt he found any humor whatsoever in it.
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  • UndyTaker
    UndyTaker Posts: 358
    jaamfaan wrote:
    I dont see anywhere where anyone mentions or intones a joke. Sad story. Coincidental title. OP was just sharing info, and I hardly doubt he found any humor whatsoever in it.

    Then you should go back to school.
    I shit and I stink. I'm real, join the club.

    A friend, he called, I didn't mention a thing. The last thing he said was, "Be sound". Sound. I contemplated an awful thing, I hate to admit. I just thought those would be such appropriate last words. But I'm still here.
  • washedinblack91
    washedinblack91 Posts: 3,079
    jaamfaan wrote:
    I dont see anywhere where anyone mentions or intones a joke. Sad story. Coincidental title. OP was just sharing info, and I hardly doubt he found any humor whatsoever in it.
    agree.
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  • Great White North
    Great White North Posts: 253
    Jeremy's Spoken wrote:
    Did I miss the joke you were trying to make?

    No joke intended, sad story that most people would otherwise overlook.
  • UndyTaker
    UndyTaker Posts: 358
    If you're not implying a joke, then you wouldn't have put the article on this board and titled it "Severed Hand".
    I shit and I stink. I'm real, join the club.

    A friend, he called, I didn't mention a thing. The last thing he said was, "Be sound". Sound. I contemplated an awful thing, I hate to admit. I just thought those would be such appropriate last words. But I'm still here.
  • Great White North
    Great White North Posts: 253
    UndieTaker wrote:
    If you're not implying a joke, then you wouldn't have put the article on this board and titled it "Severed Hand".

    Think what you want, if it said little girl has hand severed most people would have completely overlooked/ignored thread
  • LikeAnOcean
    LikeAnOcean Posts: 7,718
    Okum wrote:
    Think what you want, if it said little girl has hand severed most people would have completely overlooked/ignored thread
    Why not post this in moving train then?.. you are making a light heartedly Pearl Jam reference to a tragic story..
  • Drop The Leash 10
    Drop The Leash 10 Posts: 7,011
    what the hell?
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    Once I get out of this town


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