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Monday, May 03, 2004With snow preventing a LifeFlight helicopter from landing in Ketchum, Sivertson sent King south in an ambulance to Shoshone. But as he consulted with a Boise neurologist and examined lab results, he realized that King couldn't survive the blood pooling in his skull. Not only was it starting to force the brain through the bottom of King's skull but it was compromising the young man's breathing. Sivertson grabbed a Makita drill and a couple drill bits from the hospital's maintenance shop. Then he chased after the ambulance on the slick highway, pulling into the LDS Church parking lot in Shoshone 20 minutes after the ambulance did. As Melissa King watched, he drilled a tiny hole in the lower left part of Ben King's skull. "To an outsider it had to be pretty clear we had no idea what we were doing," Sivertson said. "But I was focused. I'd done something similar before so I had a feel or it." That's what we call John Wayne medicine. posted by Sydney on 5/03/2004 08:34:00 AM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
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