The doctors have reasted the skull of a woman from Illinois to her column after a strange accident left her with almost fatal internal decapitation, according to a report.
Megan King, now 35 years old, was 16 when he fell while jumping for a ball that lasts a football game in the gymnastics class, wounding his right ankle, the backbone and dragging the muscle of both shoulder blades, the Daily Mail reported.
After 22 surgeries, King’s condition continued to worsen progressively, causing doctors to diagnose it with Hypermobile Ehlers Danlos (HEDS) syndrome, a genetic connective tissue disorder that interrupts the collagen production of the body, which leads.
A year after the diagnosis, King’s neck was dislocated, which forced her to use a “orthopedic device” restrictive with screws placed directly in his skull to prevent it from moving.
Duration The elimination of the orthopedic device, its deteriorated skull of its spine, which makes King suffer an “internal decapitation” almost deadly, known as an atlanto-ocipital dislocation (AOD), the exit said.
“I flew my chair back to prevent gravity from decapitating me. My neurosurgeon had to hold my skull instead with my hands. I couldn’t stand. My right side was trembling uncontrollable,” King told The Outlet.
King was urgently taken to emergency surgery, where doctors merged their skull to their spine.
“It was a horror show. I woke up unable to move my head at all,” King said.
King managed to survive the heartbreaking decapitation, which entails a 90% mortality rate due to the probability that nerve signals are damaged between the brain and the body, which leads to paralysis around vital organists such as lungs and heart.
She has had a total of 37 surgeries since the accident, leaving her body merged from her skull to her pelvis and her head unable to move in any direction, according to the exit.
“I am literally a human statue. My column does not move at all. But that does not mean that I have stopped living,” he said.
Internal decapitations are three times more common in children in traumatic accidents because their bones are not full development, according to a 2015 review study. But in the case of King, its fall in combination with HEDS was enough to cause the injury, he told The Outlet.
Even so, internal decapitations are extremely rare, and represent less than 1% of all cervical lesions.
King now returns to the normal hobbies he had before an injury in a lifetime, including a recently Boyling.
“I lowered a strike, in my first attempt. My friends shouted, applauded and encouraged as savages. They are simply celebrating the strike. Celebrating every day they survived,” he said.
“I’m still learning what my new body can do. It’s not easy, but I’m adapting. And I’m always surprised what I can still achieve.”