Girl disembowled by pool drain and lives to tell the tale

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This is one disgusting and crazy story:

http://www.startribune.com/462/story/1285137.html

A 6-year-old Edina girl remained hospitalized in serious condition Wednesday after an unusual accident in which several feet of her intestine were pulled out by the suction of a swimming pool drain.

Abigail Taylor was injured Friday in the wading pool at the Minneapolis Golf Club in St. Louis Park and taken to Children's Hospital for surgery.
"It's a horrible, life-altering injury," said Robert Bennett, the attorney for Abigail's parents, Scott and Kathryn Taylor.


Bennett said doctors had to perform surgery to remove the part of Abigail's intestine that remained following the accident. He said it is likely that she will have to be fed intravenously for the rest of her life.
Bennett said doctors now are concentrating on preventing infection and managing pain, and are also deciding what course to take on further potential medical procedures to treat the injury.


Bennett said Abigail does not yet know the full extent of her injuries. "She knows she's been hurt," he said. "She's a strong little girl. How she extricated herself from that drain I'll never know."


Although some details of the accident are still fuzzy, it is known that Abigail was able to free herself from the drain and get out of the pool on her own without calling for help. As a result, the extent of her injuries wasn't immediately evident to the people near her.


In a message posted on the Caring Bridge, a nonprofit Internet site that offers free Web pages to families of people recovering from illness or injuries, the Taylors said the protective cover on the pool's drain had come off.
If so, the scenario of the injury fits a pattern that the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission warned about in a 2005 report, "Guidelines for Entrapment Hazards: Making Pools and Spas Safer."


According to the report, if a child sits on an open drain, the suction, which can reach several hundred pounds per square inch, can rupture the rectum :)shock:) and eviscerate the child in a matter of seconds.
 
I remember hearing about this kind of stuff on like dateline nbc atleast 10 years ago. Scared the shit out of me, being a little kid who swam in pools alot.
 
Yeah same thing happened a LONG time ago. I wondered the same thing then as I do now: Why would anyone sit on the open drain?

At least its not as bad as the grown men getting their junk stuck in the pool filters.
 
You mean to tell me some pool's gonna suck my soul out my ass?
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Poor little girl. Not only does she not have any intestines, but being fed through a tube for the rest of her life? Kill me now, because I don't want to spend all but 6 years of my life like that.
 
For those who didn't get the Chuck Palahniuk reference:
http://www.seizureandy.com/stuff/guts.html
(this website has the short story posted, NSFW)
Published in playboy and IIRC, is the biggest payday for a short story ever written. That'll teach a toddler to go pearl diving!
I am really wishing for a movie version of survivor, if possible by the same director who did fight club.
 
[quote name='afedock']I remember hearing about this kind of stuff on like dateline nbc atleast 10 years ago. Scared the shit out of me, being a little kid who swam in pools alot.[/quote]


yeah no shit if this is the part of the pool i think it is i used to goof around near that thing all the time especially at public pools. fuckin creepy shit and you think all you really need to worry about is someone pissing or taking a dump in the pool now you gotta worry about it blowin out your dookhole and sucking out your insides.
 
I feel sorry for her, and :puke:

[quote name='Scrubking']Why do pools need hundreds of pounds of pressure to filter the water??[/QUOTE]

Those turds don't sink to the bottom to began with so...


It said if a child sits on the drain it could create hundreds of pounds of pressure.
 
When I was little I was scared as fuck of pool drains, not for any reason, they were just freaky. Way to reinforce that years later. D:
 
Talk about huge lawsuit coming up. Poor kid has to live without her lower intestine and will not be able to eat normally for the rest of her life. Living like that will definitely have it toll on her and her parents.
 
[quote name='Oktoberfest']I thought that the possibility of this happening was sort of common knowledge?[/QUOTE]

Not if you're fucking *SIX YEARS OLD*...

Haven't pool equipment manufacturers and installers been sued over this crap before?
 
[quote name='afedock']I remember hearing about this kind of stuff on like dateline nbc atleast 10 years ago. Scared the shit out of me, being a little kid who swam in pools alot.[/QUOTE]

STRIKE FEAR~! Yeah! I remember the stories of people diving to the bottom and their hair getting caught in the drain! Those sucked. This, definitely bad...
 
don't pool manufacturers have saftey precautions for this ? You always read about little kids getting hurt by drains... suctions.. etc....

you would figure little kids being a prime user for pools... there would be more done.

Im no pool expert.. but i wonder if newer pools have any saftey regulations or standards.
 
[quote name='Pancake Rabbit']Girl shoulda read more Chuck Palahniuk.[/quote]

Thats the VERY thing I thought when I heard it on the news the other night. Brings a whole new meaning to the term feltching...
 
[quote name='Graystone']Those turds don't sink to the bottom to began with so...


It said if a child sits on the drain it could create hundreds of pounds of pressure.[/quote]


There's the fact that gravity is pulling thousands of gallons of water down a small hole the size of a coffee can. Not exactly like putting your hand under a 12oz bottle of water to stop it from draining out. ;)
 
This is horrible. So what I gather is that she will never be able to eat normal food.. just IV. Would that affect your ability to drink water? I'd never thought someone's intestine could just be removed like that.. ugh.
 
[quote name='jer7583']This is horrible. So what I gather is that she will never be able to eat normal food.. just IV. Would that affect your ability to drink water? I'd never thought someone's intestine could just be removed like that.. ugh.[/quote]
Water's absorbed by your stomach, and then excess is pumped into your kidneys and then to your bladder, as I recall. She'll be able to consume water normally, in other words. Human intestines are pretty.. mobile, I guess you could say, it's not uncommon for people to herniate them.
 
[quote name='dopa345']More reasons not to have a pool once I get a house.[/quote]

Get a hot tub, you'll get much more "fun" and "relaxation" with it heh
 
My homeroom teacher back in junior high told me about the exact same thing happening to some other kid around 10 years ago.

I feel really bad for that kid not being able to enjoy eating normally for the rest of her life.
 
[quote name='Hex']Water's absorbed by your stomach, and then excess is pumped into your kidneys and then to your bladder, as I recall. She'll be able to consume water normally, in other words. Human intestines are pretty.. mobile, I guess you could say, it's not uncommon for people to herniate them.[/quote]

The stomach doesn't absorb anything. It just gets everything ready for absorption in the intestines. Small intestines take care of most of the food and water gets taken care of by the large intestine.

The news last night said she had only six inches of intestine left in her entire body. I can't imagine getting called in to do that surgery. I don't even know if they tried to make connect anymore.
 
[quote name='depascal22']The stomach doesn't absorb anything. It just gets everything ready for absorption in the intestines. Small intestines take care of most of the food and water gets taken care of by the large intestine.

The news last night said she had only six inches of intestine left in her entire body. I can't imagine getting called in to do that surgery. I don't even know if they tried to make connect anymore.[/quote]
Shit, that's right, I forgot the large intestine's where the water's absorbed. =/ That's what I get for not thinking about anatomy and physiology enough.
 
I am a lifeguard and I work at a pool. Whenever any type of drain cover is off, its an automatic close the pool and fix it fast type of situation for this reason.
 
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