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Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: FatalXception on September 26, 2006, 09:40:28 AM

Obituary (http://www.denverpost.com/obituaries/ci_4388024)

Highlights (in order of events):

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Cook underwent an emergency splenectomy to remove his hemorrhaging spleen. The organ, injured a few days earlier in a pickup football game, began bleeding while Cook and his friends were skiing.

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Cook, still a teenager, fell from the go-kart he was driving. [,..]

The ambulance took Cook to University Hospital, where surgeons drained blood from his skull, relieving pressure on his brain and brain stem. Cook went home but was back a few hours later for a second operation after the bleeding resumed.

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The third major accident [...] involved an out-of- town car accident.  It left Cook, then a promising Colorado State University student, with severe brain damage and in a semi-vegetative coma for more than five months.

"No one had any hope at all for his survival as someone with a viable life," Silverman said.

"Then one day, he woke up. That began his incredible comeback."

Graduated.  Became a computer programmer (heckuva recovery).

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"That was when he broke his back for the first time," his sister recalled.

"He broke it two other times after that and broke his ribs in falls and various accidents.

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Thomas L. Cook, who died at 54 when he was fatally hit by a car

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: Cerberus on September 26, 2006, 09:53:58 AM

talk about getting dealt shitty hands

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: Paul2 on September 26, 2006, 12:44:55 PM

wow.  He sure had lot of really bad injuries and tough times on recoveries.  R.I.P. man.

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: Evi on September 26, 2006, 12:58:38 PM

Wow that sucks. At least he lived that long. o_0

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: Kurt Angle on September 26, 2006, 01:12:09 PM

That story sounds very "cooked" up to me.

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: Cerberus on September 26, 2006, 02:04:49 PM

Quote from: Kurt Angle

That story sounds very "cooked" up to me.

yeah, very cooked up

Title: Worlds unluckiest man finally gives up the ghost.
Post by: THX on September 27, 2006, 05:33:48 AM

sounds like bad genes + poor common sense