Girl walking and talking again after being shot in the head with an arrow
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[quote=Illinois Home Page]CERRO GORDO -- Doctors said this teen would never walk or talk again after an accident. But, she's defying the odds and doing them both. It's been almost a year since 17-year old Maci Webb was shot in the head with an arrow. She gave her first interview to WCIA-3's Gary Brode.
Maci Webb is all smiles. It's amazing to think, just a year ago, an arrow pierced her skull.
"When I see her happy and smiling, then I'm happy inside."
Webb was out with friends when someone in the group accidentally shot her in the head. Her parents say, when the arrow was removed, a part of her brain came with it.
Webb says she broke down when her father told her what happened.
"She was pretty touch-and-go. I think she died twice."
Webb was in a coma for two weeks. She spent another five months in a hospital bed, unable to move or even speak.
"I spent a lot of nights in the parking garage in the car with alcohol, crying and praying. I wanted God to take my life to let her survive."
This survivor went back to school this year at Eisenhower, in Decatur. The man who shot Webb was given a year's probation. Her family says they hold no ill will toward him.[/quote]
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i live in the town where this happened and it was crazy. apparently some people were just doing target practice on the property and she was sitting downwind of the range in a truckbed unaware and the arrow hit her. glad she's back up and running
That's pretty metal.
[quote]Webb was out with friends when someone in the group accidentally shot her in the head. [/quote]
Uh, what
[QUOTE=helifreak;46187460]That's pretty metal.[/QUOTE]
It wasn't still in her head or anything.
More impressed by how you can accidentally shoot someone in the head with an arrow
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;46187478]Uh, what[/QUOTE]
[quote]i live in the town where this happened and it was crazy. apparently some people were just doing target practice on the property and she was sitting downwind of the range in a truckbed unaware and the arrow hit her. glad she's back up and running[/quote]
[QUOTE=Complifused;46187514]More impressed by how you can accidentally shoot someone in the head with an arrow[/QUOTE]
Easier than you think
You go to take a shot and somebody moves between you and the target, you take a shot without checking what's in the foliage on the other side of the target, you have poor 'trigger' discipline, etc
[QUOTE=Dr.Critic;46187478]Uh, what[/QUOTE]
"Shit! I was aiming for Billy."
[quote]Webb was out with friends when someone in the group accidentally shot her in the head. Her parents say, when the arrow was removed, a part of her brain came with it.[/quote]
WTF? They removed it with surgery, didn't they? Tell me they did... I doubt she would be alive otherwise.
When I read the title I thought it meant the girl was shot in the head with an arrow and was still walking and talking immediately afterwards like nothing happened.
I'm assuming that since the doctor thought that she wouldn't walk or talk again, she got shot on the upper left side of her head.
Although the brain is incredibly plastic, recovering speech is a very difficult thing when damaged. Either she's left handed and has more of the speech processing occurring in the right temporal&frontal lobes allowing for easier recovery, or she's incredibly lucky that the arrow missed the bulk of her language systems
Although she seems to walk fine, all she ever says in the video is "hard work", and it seems they've omitted a lot that she actually said. Who knows how proper her speech is
[QUOTE=Karmah;46187855]I'm assuming that since the doctor thought that she wouldn't walk or talk again, she got shot on the upper left side of her head.
Although the brain is incredibly plastic, recovering speech is a very difficult thing when damaged. Either she's left handed and has more of the speech processing occurring in the right temporal&frontal lobes allowing for easier recovery, or she's incredibly lucky that the arrow missed the bulk of her language systems
Although she seems to walk fine, all she ever says in the video is "hard work", and it seems they've omitted a lot that she actually said. Who knows how proper her speech is[/QUOTE]
So many people jump on saying the left brain/right brain thing is a myth. Are there any sources on how accurate what you said is? Because it really would be fascinating to take handedness into account when certain injuries occur.
Imagine how horrible the person who shot her feels, probably thought he killed her.
He shot a girl huh? I bet it was a broadhead.
My 7th Grade teacher was shot in the eye with an arrow when he was a kid, a friend was trying to do some sort of trick. He had to walk all the way home with it sticking out of his face.
[quote]"I spent a lot of nights in the parking garage in the car with alcohol, crying and praying. I wanted God to take my life to let her survive."[/quote]
:(
What a fucking soldier this girl is.
Now ISIS can't execute her without her limbs taking their lives.
[QUOTE=rapperkid04;46188058]So many people jump on saying the left brain/right brain thing is a myth. Are there any sources on how accurate what you said is? Because it really would be fascinating to take handedness into account when certain injuries occur.[/QUOTE]
Your brain is mirrored in a lot of ways, so it's reasonable to say that speech processing can occur (and does occur) in both hemispheres.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;46189130]Your brain is mirrored in a lot of ways, so it's reasonable to say that speech processing can occur (and does occur) in both hemispheres.[/QUOTE]
This is true to an extent, but there are two important parts of the brain which are localized as primary speech centres - the Wernicke's Area (located in the posterior region of the superior temporal gyrus) and the Broca's area (the pars triangularis and opercularis on the inferior frontal gyrus in the frontal lobe) which are respectively responsible for understanding of language, and the production of speech.
These are connected by means of the uncinate fasciculus, which is a bundle of nerve fibres responsible for aiding in the comprehension of words.
Note however that there is capacity for processing and understanding of speech secondary to these main areas; the homologous areas on the other half of the brain that correspond to the locations noted play a vital role in the comprehension of ambiguous terms in language. Damage to the opposite part tends to leave one unable to comprehend these.
Also most of the capacity for speech processing and understanding/production of speech is focused in these two areas, so it stands to reason that damage taking place there will cause significant impairment in the production or comprehension of speech.
[QUOTE=rapperkid04;46188058]So many people jump on saying the left brain/right brain thing is a myth. Are there any sources on how accurate what you said is? Because it really would be fascinating to take handedness into account when certain injuries occur.[/QUOTE]
Brains are incredibly resilient. Many people can live full lives even after hemispherectomies (half the brain removed)
Now to get that platinum chip back...
Talking and walking? It's not like the arrow hit her in the Articulatio genus-area, or anything.
[QUOTE=Complifused;46187514]More impressed by how you can accidentally shoot someone in the head with an arrow[/QUOTE]
Happens all the time in TF2
[QUOTE=cecilbdemodded;46188715]He shot a girl huh? I bet it was a broadhead.[/QUOTE]
you always churn out the most terrible things to say
[QUOTE=Valiantttt;46188915]Ain't that a shot in the head.[/QUOTE]
Shot through the head, and you're to blame, you give bows a bad name.
[QUOTE=rapperkid04;46188058]So many people jump on saying the left brain/right brain thing is a myth. Are there any sources on how accurate what you said is? Because it really would be fascinating to take handedness into account when certain injuries occur.[/QUOTE]
I can't source anything other than my neuroscience lectures
The left hemisphere is generally more inclined to language processing in right handed people, and the reverse is noted to occur in left handed peopl, not completely, but some diffusion of processing to the other lobe
The thing about language processing is that it isn't a centralized task. Even the 2 areas known to be involved with it the "Wernicke's and Broca's" areas are centres along a white matter tract. This tract does go across the 2 hemispheres, but the major bulk of the activity occurs in the left hemisphere in those that are right handed, and can manifest in the right hemisphere if they are left. It isn't always the case, it may even be split activity.
The whole concept of left brained vs right is an oversimplification people use when they don't know anything about neurology. People use their whole brain.
"handedness" applies to more than just your hands; you have a dominant foot/leg, eye & ear. We are asymmetrical. The dominant features take up more cortical space, allowing for better precision with them. More cortical space for one thing on one side could mean less for what would have used that space, meaning that function could be lessened or pushed over to the other hemisphere.
Im typing on an iPod so this text might be very jumbled and incoherent :/
Everyone who makes arrow to the knee jokes have got nothing on her
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