Today’s Excruciating Yet Truly Morbid Fact!
A Venezuelan man who had been declared dead woke up in the morgue in excruciating pain after medical examiners began their autopsy. Carlos Camejo, 33, was declared dead after a highway accident and taken to the morgue, where examiners began an autopsy only to realize something was amiss when he started bleeding. They quickly sought to stitch up the incision on his face. “I woke up because the pain was unbearable,” Camejo said. His grieving wife turned up at the morgue to identify her husband’s body only to find him moved into a corridor — and alive. Reuters could not immediately reach hospital officials to confirm the events. But Camejo showed the newspaper his facial scar and a document ordering the autopsy.
Culled from: Reuters
Generously submitted by: Sarah
Why would they start the autopsy on his face?
There is a Stephen King short story dealing wit this. Guy wakes up on the autopsy table, can’t move, but can see and hear the doctor and her techs talking about him. One tech is sent out for being obnoxious. The doctor and the tech are examining him, and they are examining his Vietnam war injury, which happens to be in his groin area. Suddenly the ousted tech comes running back in screaming “Don’t cut him, don’t cut him! There was a snake in his golf bag and it bit Mike!” (A paramedica, apparently.) As he’s yelling this, the doctor’s hand reflexively tightens on his you know what, and he responds as a living person would, and is spared from autopsy and treated for the snakebite. Very good story.
@Magnoire La Chouette
Yeah, that is a little odd. Usually any cranial incisions are made to the posterior of the scalp to peel it forward over the face, thereby exposing the skull. The tongue is usually removed from the esophagus. If the poor sot was in a car accident, they may have wanted to sample tissue from the wounds.
Mike
Dont get in a car wreck in Venezuela!