“When Dan Woolley says it, he really means it. He used a medical app saved on his phone to treat a leg injury after the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince collapsed around him,” Wright reports. “Woolley, who is from Colorado Springs, is one of the Americans who survived the massive earthquake that hit Haiti last week, and he did it with an iPhone application. Woolley is now recovering at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami, but it was his fast actions with the app that may have saved his life.”
“Woolley used the light from his iPhone to show him his injuries and diagnosed it properly as a broken foot. Then, he used the instructions from the app to treat the excessive bleeding from cuts on his legs and the back of his head,” Wright reports. “He said he also looked up ways to stop from going into shock. ‘I kind of had some time to do some self-diagnosis down there,’ Woolley said. ‘God was with me.'”
“Woolley also used his camera to take pictures of the surrounding rubble to piece together a way out. He eventually took refuge in an elevator shaft until rescue crews found him 65 hours after the earthquake,” Wright reports. “On Tuesday, Woolley told The Today Show he knew he was going to die and decided to write a journal on his notepad to his wife and young kids in the event someone found his corpse under the rubble. ‘I was in a big accident. Don’t be upset at God. He always provides for his children even in hard times,’ Woolley wrote in the dim light. ‘I’m still praying that God will get me out but he may not but He will always take care of ya.'”
Full article, with video, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dev” for the heads up.]
rounding error……..
@master cylinder
huh?
@KiLleR
He’s referring to Ballmer’s quote about the iPhone being so insignificant that it ‘s a “Rounding Error” in accounting.
When Ballmer gets run over by the tractor tailer full of Apple Products he’ll still be saying rounding error.
Will the Microsoft board of directors can Ballmer prior to Apple surpassing Microsoft’s market cap?
Great story..
umm…if you have enough mental faculties to look up how to avoid shock on your iphone, you’re probably not in shock
And the app in question is. . . ?
@ iHokie
Don’t let facts get in the way of a good news story
“umm…if you have enough mental faculties to look up how to avoid shock on your iphone, you’re probably not in shock”
That is correct. He looked up how to AVOID shock (such as fainting from blood loss), not how to get out of shock.
The Flying Spaghetti Monster God is not pleased and will be coming by to pick you up later.
But if you’re losing blood and suffering from other unknown / unspecified injuries, you can certainly go into shock. Shock, as a medical condition, isn’t necessarily an instantaneous response to an event.
@iHokie
. Just because he was not yet in shock does not mean that he would have stayed as such. Actually, It has been proven that having something to read is one of the best ways to stay calm and survive an extreme situation.
‘God was with me,’ the Woolley thinker said.
Proof God wasn’t with the thousands crushed to death or with the thousands slowly dying of injury, hunger and thirst. They didn’t love Him enough.
you wrote: ‘God was with me,’ the Woolley thinker said.
Yes, that is what the man said. He also wrote, in a note to his kids written when he did not believe he would survive, that “…He always provides for his children even in hard times, I’m still praying that God will get me out but he may not…”
The statement, which you are taking incredibly out of context, indicates that the man felt the presence of God. Whether God is a fairy tale or not, he’s not making any claims about anyone else or what happened to them. He’s describing his experience, as he lay injured and buried beneath tons of rubble.
While I loathe those who claim that Haiti’s earthquake has anything to do with religion, I equally loathe those who refuse to respect others because of their religion – because they are opposite sides of the same coin. Consider that – you and Pat Robertson, brothers beneath the skin.
I love my iPhone but he’s lucky the friggin battery lasted more than 24 hours!!!!
And on the 200,000th victim God came to the end of all his work; and on the 200,001st victim he took his rest from all the work which he had done.
And God said “it is good”.
Which medical app did he use??
@@Trvth
Re: “I equally loathe…”
Then surely you realize that it’s historical events JUST like this that enabled/forced “us” to create/want/need god(s).
It’s quite funny he seems to be thanking “God” more than the real life-saving instruments: The iPhone and his brain.
If believing in a supposedly kind deity that was invented by ignorant cuckoos thousands of years ago as an attempt to explain what they couldn’t and vainly hope that death wasn’t the end isn’t proof that humanity is far dumber than we think we are, I don’t know what is.
@Trvth says: “While I loathe those who claim that Haiti’s earthquake has anything to do with religion, I equally loathe those who refuse to respect others because of their religion – because they are opposite sides of the same coin.”
See moving the goal posts and straw man entries in Wikepedia.
Earthquakes? There’s an app for that.
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“…Then, he used the instructions from the app to treat the excessive bleeding from cuts on his legs and the back of his head,” Wright reports. “He said he also looked up ways to stop from going into shock. ‘I kind of had some time to do some self-diagnosis down there,’ Woolley said. ‘God was with me.'”
If by God, he means Steve Jobs, then, yeah, I guess he’s right, since the story is all about how the iPhone helped get him out of his mess. Without Steve Job-, er, I mean God; things may have gone the other way.
God? Who’s God? You didn’t see him, you didn’t hear him and still you believe that he exist?
Steve Jobs is ”’God” for me, because he is man who changes the future.
Once more, a relevant bit of wisdom:
“Gods and their examples are not needed by those who respect themselves and, consequently, respect others. Gods are for children, for little fearful people, for those who would have no responsibility to themselves or their fellows.”
All this talk about God – it really makes me miss Zune Tang.
It almost makes me miss the rampant mindless name calling about politics. Not quite, but almost.
Can’t we just accept each other as people, and try to treat each other as we would wish to be treated? And wouldn’t that include overlooking certain character faults? Character faults like, for example, believing in God, or failing to believe in God?
goodnight, my brothers and sisters in humanity. and may peace be upon you all.