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Well, This Sorta Explains it
This Reuters update to the "man falls out of moon roof" story at least sheds a bit of light on what happened:
A top municipal official in Phoenix died in a bizarre incident that saw him crawl out of his fast-moving vehicle, stand atop its roof and extend his arms outward before tumbling off, authorities said on Thursday.
So aliens didn't in fact come by and suck him out of his seat. Seems it's possible some weird tropical disease was involved, but nobody's really sure why the guy did what he did. Remember kids, surfing is for boards, not cars.
Encaphalitis is the only 'tropical disease' I know of that can cause hallucinations and I can't see anything else that would make someone do something like that. But, as far as I know, encaphalitus doesn't recur once you are over it.
Malaria does recur but I can't really imagine someone standing atop a car to get rid of hot sweats (else you'd have it happening all the time with menopausal women).
I'll second that police spokesman. "Bizarre."
On Fed 6th of 2003 (Fri night) I went to sleep as normal. According to my wife and neighbors I was carried out to the ambulance wrapped in my bed sheet the following Sat morning. So rigid the EMT's had no other way than to just carry me in my bed sheet. I was foaming at the mouth and again, stiff. Note: I was not thrasing around, but just locked up as it were.
I was in the hospital #1 for 9 days where I was basically given meds to control the seizures (of little help) and given two spinal taps (no cultures grown on either..duh). My wife realizing that hospital #1 was treating the syptoms not the cause, got me transferred to hospital #2 where more or less, they knew what my problem was as I was being wheeled in. Cultures grown proved thisi. I'm told I was talkative during most of this ordeal, although many of my conversations would drift off towards things not really there, etc. Since the first hospital had given me so much medication (stop the seizures, not the cause...duh) hospital #2 said I arrived there that I was basically "toxic" when I arrived, As such, to stop the seizures (give my mind some much needed relief) I was put into a medically induced coma. Plan was for a 5 day coma. I came out it on the 7th day. Needless to say, family was distraught. During the coma I had the full package: Tubes in nostrils, throat, scalp EKG probes, chest probes, etc. Glad I don't remember any of it.
Now,I'm a guy who would only take an aspirin if I had a killer headache and had to drive home into a setting sun. Now I'm eating about 16 pills in a 24 hr period. Depakote, Dilantin, etc. The grand plan, assuming I have anymore "break through" seizures is to wean me down to as little or no medicines as possiible. Has anyone out there ever gone through anything like this?????? If so, please let me know your trials and tribulations.
Posted by: Amiller on December 18, 2004 08:32 PM