Really surprised this guy wasn’t from Tulsa.
Dunlap was pronounced dead November 19 at United Regional Healthcare System in Wichita Falls, Texas, after he was injured in an all-terrain vehicle accident. His family approved having his organs harvested.
As family members were paying their last respects, he moved his foot and hand. He reacted to a pocketknife scraped across his foot and to pressure applied under a fingernail. After 48 days in the hospital, he was allowed to return home, where he continues to work on his recovery.
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Dunlap, 21, of Frederick, Oklahoma, said he has no recollection of the crash.
“I remember a little bit that was about an hour before the accident happened. But then about six hours before that, I remember,” he said.
Dunlap said one thing he does remember is hearing the doctors pronounce him dead.
“I’m glad I couldn’t get up and do what I wanted to do,” he said.
That bolded part is quite possibly the awesomest thing I have ever read in my life. And I read Maniac Magee as a kid. Anyway, I think we should all be thankful that Gary England was able to lay his hands upon this guy and work his miracles. It makes for a cool story, which you can see in living color in this video:
Once again, thanks to Ryan from Oklahoma Rock who sends us about 95% of the stories on this site and from whom I stole the subject line of this post.
Questions I need answered:
1. The family was paying last respects that included running a pocketknife across his foot and jamming file under his fingernail?
1a. Were they testing to make sure he was dead or just hillbilly family figuring: “He cain’t feel it, so lets poke at him?”
2. The kid was hooked up to a brain wave monitor which registered nothing. Does that mean it’s normal for this kid’s brain not to work?
It was a nurse who did the pocketknife test.
Actually, it was two cousins who just so happened to also be nurses.
hi. I don’t know if you guys know this…but I will be offering a class in reading comprehension shortly. open to the public..you are welcome to sign up clarkness.
First you skip out on the Fighting For the Universe concert and now you’re making fun of my reading ability? I feel as if I’ve lost a #1 fan.
Maniac Magee rules.
This is just a case of horrible reporting.
No medical professional is quoted in this story.
Last month they ran a story with a headline about a brain-dead baby.
The baby was also not brain-dead.
If only CNN had a medical reporter - perhaps a neurosurgeon, to set them straight.