Stabbed in Brain, Officer Escaped 'Death's Door'
The wild swing connected to the left side of the police officer's head, a presumed punch until the blood started flowing. The officer, Eder Loor, reached to his temple and felt the handle of a knife. "He is probably the luckiest unlucky man you could ever have," said Dr. Joshua Bederson from The Mount Sinai Medical Center.
The wild swing connected to the left side of the police officer’s head, a presumed punch until the blood started flowing. The officer, Eder Loor, reached to his temple and felt the handle of a knife. He pulled the knife out, his wife later learned, not realizing then just how seriously injured he was. By any odds, Officer Loor should have been killed or left brain-dead on Tuesday, after a confrontation with a 26-year-old ex-convict in East Harlem. “He is probably the luckiest unlucky man you could ever have,” said Dr. Joshua Bederson from The Mount Sinai Medical Center. The folding knife’s three-inch blade passed half an inch below structures that control motor functions and another half-inch from structures that control vision. It touched the nerve that gives sensation to the face and nicked, but did not penetrate, a major artery, Dr. Bederson said. “It was a millimeter from everything; it was ridiculous,” he said. “You don’t want to overemphasize, but he was at death’s door. He was minutes away from crashing.” Read More
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