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Non Gaming Discussions => Off-Topic => Topic started by: Seed_Of_Evil on April 21, 2003, 04:12:29 AM

Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on April 21, 2003, 04:12:29 AM: This shoot was taken in November, and many people thought it woul be the picture of the year, or even the picture of the decade.
The photography belongs to a fetus of 21 weeks called Samuel Alexander Armas (USA). You can see he\'s been operating by a doctor, who is called Joseph Bruner. He was diagnosed to have spina bifida and he will never survive if is extracted from his mother\'s body, a nurse called Julie.

Dr. Bruner, after study the case, decided to operate the baby from inside the uterus. He extracted the whole womb through a C-Intervention and makes a tiny incision to intervene the fetus. When he was finishing the process, Samuel took his hand out of the uterus and grabbed the doctor\'s finger.

Doctor Bruner declared he has lived the most emotive moment of his live, such as the baby was thanking him to save his life. Doctor stayed quiet for some minutes, time enough for another nurse to take this photograph.

NY Times\' editors titled the pictures as "Hand of Hope", and the mother said that she was been crying for a while after watching the incredible shoot. Samuel is OK at the moment. Enjoy the pic.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: GmanJoe on April 21, 2003, 04:33:45 AM: *faints*

Very provocative and compelling picture, Adan.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: Seed_Of_Evil on April 21, 2003, 04:41:18 AM: Provocative? Faint? Come on... it is one of the nicest pictures i\'ve ever seen.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: GmanJoe on April 21, 2003, 05:02:58 AM: I wouldn\'t say nicest. Kinda bloody. I hope it was a successful surgery and the baby lives a normal life.
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Post by: Mr. Kennedy on April 21, 2003, 05:47:44 AM: BARF!
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Post by: MPTheory on April 21, 2003, 06:24:25 AM: the story is a nice one. the picture looks like something out of "aliens".
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Post by: kopking on April 21, 2003, 07:03:30 AM: yea nice story, but the pic is hardly the most eye pleasing
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: Tyrant on April 21, 2003, 07:18:00 AM: i find the pic more amazing than "disgusting". just the tought of that child squeezing the doctors hand, after a procedure in which the probability of the child dying was so high, is truly astonishing.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: Kurt Angle on April 21, 2003, 07:37:10 AM: It\'s amazing how advanced surgery has come :eek:
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Post by: Darth Joyda on April 21, 2003, 11:51:04 AM: The picture itself is rather bloody, yet astonishingly poetic. The background-story, on the other hand, is the beautiness of the shot.
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Post by: (e) on April 21, 2003, 03:29:51 PM: Picture of the year?
Can you say; BULL SHIT?

No way in hell it even has a chance. ****ing disgusting, and more amazing things happen every day.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: theomen on April 21, 2003, 03:35:43 PM: *can\'t sleep, baby will eat me, can\'t sleep, baby will eat me.....*
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Post by: SwifDi on April 21, 2003, 04:03:15 PM: Man, some of you guys are pussies...
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: (e) on April 21, 2003, 04:05:23 PM: Yeah- big tough Vapor snake dissin\' on us little pussies. ****...

I dont see how we are pussies, calling soemthing disgusting in no way makes you a pussy. Example; you see some dog eat a bowl of human shit, disgusting right? OH! You must be a pussy, right?
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: theomen on April 21, 2003, 05:21:58 PM: Vapor, I wouldn\'t go around calling people pussies. If you worked with me as an EMT you would have coughed up your lunch plenty of times. The first time you saw an evisceration, you\'d blow chunks. Even an open fracture is nasty, especially those that were suffered from a crushing mechanism as they tend to be a bit more gory.

While I still treated these injuries, and managed to keep my head, I can admit that they are nasty as hell.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: (e) on April 21, 2003, 06:47:08 PM: Yeah, vapor its pretty pathetic. Ive seen LOTS of stuff that would make you never want to see the outside light even.

An example; my uncles friend was changing the shingles on my grandmas roof. He was acting stupid, and it was lightly raining, enough to reshingle. He slipped and fell. His leg bent backwards, towards his chest. It snapped almost completely off. I was about 8 at the time. It scares the hell out of me now when I am in extremely high heights.

theomen: My mother had a friend who was an EMT. Boy, when she came over for a teaparty- I could hear the growls of disgust from my bedroom :laughing:
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: Ace on April 21, 2003, 06:48:43 PM: Quote
Originally posted by theomen
Vapor, I wouldn\'t go around calling people pussies. If you worked with me as an EMT you would have coughed up your lunch plenty of times. The first time you saw an evisceration, you\'d blow chunks. Even an open fracture is nasty, especially those that were suffered from a crushing mechanism as they tend to be a bit more gory.

While I still treated these injuries, and managed to keep my head, I can admit that they are nasty as hell.

I don\'t know how you guys do it. I\'m just glad you do.

Ace
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Post by: Luke on April 21, 2003, 08:56:07 PM: My dad was an EMT for about 4 years when I was really young. He would never tell me any stories untill I got much older, but when I finally heard em, I understood why.
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Post by: theomen on April 21, 2003, 09:05:10 PM: The worst I saw when working with my local First Responder was a hit and run on a kid on on a bike. His leg was turned into ground meat, and the bone was stickingout, with torn muscle hanging from it. And his friend had his head pretty messed up, his orbital bone was fractured and had his eye pretty much hanging out.
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Post by: Soul Reaver on April 21, 2003, 09:55:42 PM: /\\
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Gah. :eek:
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Post by: Viper_Fujax on April 21, 2003, 10:21:16 PM: i can take stuff like that. my friend tried to make me barf by showing me some gross picture on a certain website and i was like "gross" but not anywhere near the point of throwing up or anything close to it.

The things i cant handle is a body part bending in the wrong direction. Once RealTV has a skateboard/rollerblading/etc. clip I change the channel because i cant handle that kind of sh*t. I saw Willis Mcgehee(sp?) break his leg and i fricken fell to the floor in disgust, same thing happened with Garrison Hearst\'s compund fracture.

On that note i think the picture/story is awesome. amazing stuff happening nowadays with our kind of technology.
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Post by: Soul Reaver on April 21, 2003, 11:36:03 PM: It\'s not disgusting until you see it for real.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: SER on April 22, 2003, 12:58:22 AM: Picture sucks. That\'s all I have to say.
Title: "Hand of Hope"
Post by: theomen on April 22, 2003, 01:11:44 AM: Viper, if that site has adult material, you may want to edit your post.