A 35-year-old woman from the US has revealed how a terrible sports accident caused in her teens and left her about to be “beheaded internally”.
Internal beheading is fatal in over 90% of photo cases: Pixabay
Megan King, from Illinois (US), was only 16 in 2005 when he jumped in the air to catch a football ball during gymnastics, falling to the ground. Following the impact, he injured his right ankle and spine, breaking his muscles on both shoulder blades. He then spent more than a year in crutches. Instead of mitigating the symptoms, others appeared. Megan’s joints weakened, her muscles began to break, and the shoulder blades were unbearable.
Over the years, she has undergone 22 surgery only on shoulders and shoulder blades, doctors not understanding why her body could not heal. It took 10 years for Megan to be diagnosed in 2015 with Hypermobil Ehler-Danlos Syndrome, a genetic condition that prevents the correct collagen formation, an essential articular tissue, which leads to joint instability, according to the Daily Mail.
A year later, King’s neck was dislocated and a halo prosthesis was mounted, a device that screws directly into the skull to prevent the neck.
“My vertebral column does not move at all”
During the process of removing the device, its skull is almost detached from the column, an almost always fatal condition called internal beheading or atlanto-occipital dislocation (AOD).
“My neurosurgeon had to hold my skull in place with my hands. I couldn’t stand. My right side trembles incontrolabably“, The woman said. It was operated on urgently, and the doctors stuck her column skull.”It was a moment of horror. I woke up unable to move my head“she said.
He has suffered 37 surgery so far and can no longer move his head up, down, left or right.
“They are literally a human statue. My vertebral column is not moving at all. But that doesn’t mean I stopped living“, she said, who added:”I still learn what my “new” body can do. It is not easy, but I adapt. And I am always surprised by what I can do“.
The internal beheading is fatal in over 90 percent of cases, because the damage interrupts the nerve signals between the brain and the body, leading to paralysis around the vital organs, such as the lungs and the heart, affecting their operation. The stabilization of the head is essential to prevent it from separating even more from the spine.
