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Re: The weirdest, scariest, most unbelieveable thing you've
Twenty years ago, driving down an icy winding mountain road outside Denver. Truck in front of us.
All of a sudden, the passenger in the cab starts crawling out the window trying to get into the truck bed.
Truck is going too fast, starts swerving, he falls out onto the road head first and
starts rolling toward the side of the road, we barely miss him.
He's still alive but unconscious and turning blue. I try mouth-to-mouth to no avail.
A big rig comes down the road, stops & uses CB radio to call for help.
I'm looking around for something to use to give him a tracheotomy.
I don't know anything about how to do one but he's dying in front of us
and nothing is working to get him breathing. The driver is his sister, both were drunk,
she's screaming, hysterical, and watching her brother perhaps die.
Luckily we weren't too far from the city and an ambulance arrives surprisingly quickly.
I don't know what happened to him. We went on our way after the police took our info.
It's surprising what adrenaline does. I was calm as can be during the incident but 6 hours later, at dinner,
I started getting the shakes and fell apart. Still think about him after all these years and wonder whether he
survived and recovered.
Twenty years ago, driving down an icy winding mountain road outside Denver. Truck in front of us.
All of a sudden, the passenger in the cab starts crawling out the window trying to get into the truck bed.
Truck is going too fast, starts swerving, he falls out onto the road head first and
starts rolling toward the side of the road, we barely miss him.
He's still alive but unconscious and turning blue. I try mouth-to-mouth to no avail.
A big rig comes down the road, stops & uses CB radio to call for help.
I'm looking around for something to use to give him a tracheotomy.
I don't know anything about how to do one but he's dying in front of us
and nothing is working to get him breathing. The driver is his sister, both were drunk,
she's screaming, hysterical, and watching her brother perhaps die.
Luckily we weren't too far from the city and an ambulance arrives surprisingly quickly.
I don't know what happened to him. We went on our way after the police took our info.
It's surprising what adrenaline does. I was calm as can be during the incident but 6 hours later, at dinner,
I started getting the shakes and fell apart. Still think about him after all these years and wonder whether he
survived and recovered.