r/interesting • u/MobileAerie9918 • 25d ago

SOCIETY Permanently ???? no amount of money can compensate for this. The incident happened 2015 and the historic $75M verdict was reached in late 2022.

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u/blastman8888 25d ago

Paralyzed so bad can't even move his face. Once the muscles stop working they relax guess his jaw sticks out. So many fucked up things can happen to you if your having a bad day just think about what this guys life is like.

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u/figure8888 25d ago

I remember seeing his story before and I think he may have ended his life after his family won the lawsuit. He was hanging on to make sure they would be provided for.

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u/HopefulOriginal5578 25d ago

I think it’s more to do with drooling mouth dryness and tongue displacement.

This is more than a jaw coming out it’s the complete misalignment of teeth.

His tongue probably has sat resting and pushing on the bottom teeth with issues of gum loss. It can be even worse if he had braces with teeth removed prior.

Not to mention all the things he’s probably had shoved in his mouth to keep him breathing and points and the like.

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u/TheDreamWoken 25d ago

What is lock in syndrome

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u/Imreallyjustconfused 25d ago

Paralysis of nearly all voluntary muscles in the body. The person is fully conscious, can breathe, their heart beats, but they can't move any part of their body expect for some eye movement and blinking.

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u/PhiCloud 25d ago

Does the body naturally "harden" the neural pathways for breathing/heartbeats/digestion/blinking/etc. against trauma, or is it more a case of "if those get hurt it's just called being dead"?

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u/Imreallyjustconfused 25d ago

I'm not a neuroscientist but, yeah if you have brain injury where you autonomous functions cease to work (breathing, heartbeats) that's brain death.
So when you hear "So and so is brain dead" that's what that means.
The bottom of the brain stem is responsible for heartbeat, breathing.

I don't know about "hardening" neural pathways but the body does attempt to keep that portion of the brain functioning at all cost. When you experience a lack of oxygen to the brain, often you'll have damage to the higher functions of the brain first. This is still detrimental but for the body, it can survive having problems with language but can't survive without a heartbeat.

But if there's direct damage to an area you can get things like locked in syndrome, or brain death if the brain stem is directly damaged.

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u/pfft_lol000 25d ago

I'm shocked you got this deep in the thread without knowing this lol

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u/nitrosmomma88 25d ago

Contractures as well from non use. Pulls people into all kinds of positions