Cuxhaven
“Practically a miracle”: Fence pole pierces 55-year-old and doesn’t injure a single organ
Frank Vaorin with the fence pole that pierced his body
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The treating doctors in Bremen have never seen a case like this before: Against all odds, a man survived a fall from a height of four meters onto a metal pole, from which he was impaled and completely pierced.
According to his doctors, Frank Vaorin had several guardian angels: While pruning trees in his garden in Cuxhaven, the 55-year-old fell from a ladder four meters deep onto a fence pole – and was impaled by it. Against all odds, he survived the accident, as the Bremen-Mitte Clinic announced on Tuesday. The rusty metal rod, more than a meter long, drilled itself next to the anus, through the stomach, past the right colon, past vital vessels and the liver, through the diaphragm and into the chest. According to a press release from the clinic, it also spared the lungs, pierced some ribs and emerged below the collarbone.
Published images from the clinic show the fence pole in the patient’s body
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Chief physician: Fence pole did not injure a single organ in the body
“The fact that the rod did not injure a single organ is practically a miracle. I have never experienced such a case in my entire career,” said chief physician Professor Hüseyin Bektas. According to the information, if the man had fallen onto the pole in a slightly different way, the accident could have been fatal. “The patient didn’t just have one guardian angel, there must have been many,” said Bektas. For him, the case was so unique that he wanted to describe it in international journals.