Still Alive After Being Shot in the Face

popgoesthehead · #51 ● 02-18-2021, 11:51 AM

What a whiny little bitch. Quit your quacking, you asked for this.

stfu you psychopathic a-hole. The guy clearly was in a tragic and hopeless state of mind. He never anticipated surviving for a few hours in mind boggling disfigurement and pain.

Show some respect.

echonovember · #52 ● 02-18-2021, 01:40 PM

Originally Posted by Oscar99 ↗

Jesus they did a good job at sewing it up! I was just wondering what on earth medics could do with that mess

Yep, and that's just the immediate repair.

I posted earlier that it didn't look like he damaged anything vital, and with the exception of some damage to the frontal bone, the neurocranium was basically intact. Even with basic first aid, the wound wouldn't be fatal, well depending on avoiding infection at least.

Obviously, he destroyed both his eyes, but the closeups indicate that his sense of taste and smell will recover to some degree...hell, the trajectory of the shot probably missed most of the facial nerves to boot, so depending on the quality of the reconstruction, his ability to speak, and potentially emote is probably pretty high.

DanteAntonelli · #53 ● 02-19-2021, 06:10 AM

Originally Posted by cardsharksam ↗

How did the gun return to the back of the car

Due to Newton's third law, just physics at work, referred to as "recoil" in firearms lingo.

DanteAntonelli · #54 ● 02-19-2021, 06:23 AM

Originally Posted by echonovember ↗

As terrifying as this may be, from the images and video there wasn't anything that would be considered as critical or life threatening with even standard first aid.

There was probably some damage that we couldn't see, but the braincase (neurocranium) is pretty much intact, there's no sign of any serious bleeds, and he's conscious, ambulatory, and responsive.

This image might help, as it shows the position and shape of the skull structure:

Now take a look at our subject here, most of the damage is in the mandible, maxilla, zygomatic arch, and nasal bone, with only minimal damage to the frontal bone...and that's the only one that actually is considered as being part of the braincase.

He was aiming way too forward, and/or flinched, and basically destroyed every non-critical structure in his face.

Baring infection, or some form of intracranial damage, he'll probably live, and reconstructive surgery and prosthetics will be able to get some elements functional again, but he be fuuuked in terms of his vision...taste and smell might not be entirely lost, but there's too much soft tissue damage and not enough of a close up for me to even guess what's left.

...the plastic surgeon who sees him may well be thinking, "And this is how I'll pay for my new vacation property."

And you're just considering tissue disruption at a structural level, but you also have to take into consideration the histological damage, blood vessels, nerve ramifications (facial paralysis and loss of sensation on areas of his facial skin), facial muscles and ligaments and also the effects of the gas pressure (As occurs in a contact shot, which augments the hydrostatic shock), being the reason I believe the overpressure damaged both of his inner ears as it traveled from his mouth cavity into both inner ears through the Eustachian tubes.
He will be talking with an electronic voice box from now on.

I'm also pretty sure he will have neurological sequels like tinnitus from the damaged vestibulocochlear nerve and other inner ear structures like the cochlea sending false sound signals etc.

He F-ed up his life beyond his wildest imagination.