Driving home a point

I remember dropping in a psychology class in high school. Mrs Franz was telling us about a patient at Sheppard Pratt Hospital who had been in a catatonic state for some time, and on a nice Sunday afternoon, his family came to take him for a nice ride. On the way back, their car ran off the road at that bad curve on Charles Street, and the patient was ejected from the car.

When the others came to him, he came to, as in, he regained sentience.

No one ever provided me any documentation on this, so it might be fake old news, but it's nice to think that life takes some strange turns, and sometimes, things work out.

Out in Omaha, Nebraska, it gets cold and it rains and snows and gets cold again, and that is the perfect recipe for potholes.  (For the perfect recipe for Chicken Parmesan, go to the Food Network site).

The city of Omaha repaired 13,000 potholes this winter, and it's one of the ones they DIDN'T get to that is being credited with a medical assist.

According to NPR, an ambulance from Gretna, a town outside of Omaha, was on the way to Lakeside Hospital in Omaha, transporting a patient with an elevated heart rate.

The ambulance hit a pothole, and the man's heart rate went right back to normal at once.

The man's cardiologist confirmed to a local reporter that he had never heard of this happening, but that people with super ventricular tachycardia get a rapid heart rate caused by a number of things, including including a faulty electrical system in the heart. If that's the case, and a person in tachycardia is jolted or startled, their hearts will return to normal.

So that's the story, and no one is saying this is recommended treatment for heart patients, it worked once!