{"id":4794,"date":"2014-03-18T20:08:52","date_gmt":"2014-03-19T01:08:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4794"},"modified":"2014-03-18T20:09:02","modified_gmt":"2014-03-19T01:09:02","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-march-18-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=4794","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour for March 18, 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today’s Severed Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n

A 6-year-old girl is recovering after surgeons reattached her left hand, severed when it was caught in a loop of jump rope that had snagged on the axle of her mother’s car. \u00a0Erica Rix underwent 10 hours of surgery after the accident (in early September, 2008) and spent nine days in intensive care before returning home. \u00a0Erica was playing with a jump rope in the back seat of her mother’s car and let one end of the rope out the window to flutter in the wind. \u00a0“I wanted to see it go up and down because I thought I was going to fly,” she said Tuesday on NBC’s “Today.” \u00a0The rope caught on the car’s axle and a loop of the rope tightened around the girl’s wrist, slicing off her hand. \u00a0“She was screaming and screaming and so I got out of the car and at her window that was just cracked about that much, the remaining part of her hand … most of it was gone,” her mother, Allison Rix, said on “Today.” \u00a0\u00a0Passing motorist Jim Bailey, of Saratoga, stopped and made a tourniquet to stop the bleeding, the San Jose Mercury News said. \u00a0“I was trying to wave down a passer-by,” Allison Rix said Tuesday, “and he stopped immediately and ran up to the car and had to assess the situation then \u2014 just like a superhero, I like to think of him \u2014 as he whipped out his belt and did a tourniquet” while she tried to call 911. \u00a0\u00a0Rix said her cell phone got disconnected but another person who stopped was able to call emergency services. \u00a0Passer-by Pat Heller spotted Erica’s hand lying on the street, and she and a resident directed traffic around it. \u00a0“I took some real deep breaths. I just kept telling myself ‘This is a child’s hand,'” Heller told the Mercury News.<\/p>\n

Culled from: Associated Press
\nGenerously submitted by: Jaclyn<\/p>\n

Directing residents AROUND the hand? \u00a0Who else here would have picked it up for safekeeping?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today’s Severed Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A 6-year-old girl is recovering after surgeons reattached her left hand, severed when it was caught in a loop of jump rope that had snagged on the axle of her mother’s car. \u00a0Erica Rix underwent 10 hours of surgery after the accident (in early September, 2008) and spent nine […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-facts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4794"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4803,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4794\/revisions\/4803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}