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OWEN: It was my first blasting in the field. Body was mangled. Home-made explosive device, copper wires were embedded five inches deep in the abdomen, arms and legs hanging on by threads of skin. I’d never seen anything like it. Not in a textbook, not during residency. It was incredibly. Body full of holes.. trauma surgeon’s dream. I put turnakits on where I could, started tying arteries off with my bare hands. But the bleeding was everywhere.. stomach, chest.. the best pressure I could think of was my own body. So I.. I lay there for two hours on top of him, not moving, trying to keep that dam from bursting with my own hands and elbows and knees.. body full of holes. But he never bled out. I wouldn’t let him. He made it to the hospital. He made it out. A month later.. he sent me a note thanking me for saving his life and then he shot himself. That was my best surgery.. and my worst.
Sympathy For The Devil, 5x12
(Source: adrift-atsea)
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