“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.]
@Geo
“God? Who’s God? You didn’t see him, you didn’t hear him and still you believe that he exist?”
Let me turn it around:
Logic? What’s logic? You can’t see it, you can’t hear it and still you believe it exists?
“If by God, he means Steve Jobs, then, yeah, I guess he’s right”
Hahaha
MW: Ways [mysterious]
Ah, the old god doesn’t do the bad stuff but should get all the credit for the good stuff line.
I’m pleased this guy survived, but he survived because of people. An accident got him there, but people wrote the iPhone apps that were useful to him, and people found him and got him out. Credit where credit is due – here’s to the rescue services doing an incredible job in Haiti.
Oh, and the app he used was “Pocket First Aid and CPR”. Very few reports seem to be actually naming the app. I wonder why?
Oh, and the app he used was “Pocket First Aid and CPR”. Very few reports seem to be actually naming the app. I wonder why?
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“If by God, he means Steve Jobs, then, yeah, I guess he’s right”
Hahaha
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Check out this site: http://www.earthquake-survival-kit.net/
Earthquake Survival Kit is a revolutionary iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad application that can save your life when an earthquake occurs.
Features:
Prediction – calculates the probabilities of an earthquake to occur in your area
Alarm – sounds when an earthquake is detected
Position SOS – send a SMS with current GPS position (iPhone only)
Acoustic SOS – emits acoustic SOS signals
Visual SOS – emits visual SOS signals
Flashlight – obviously a flashlight
Whistle – obviously a whistle
Battery – shows the battery remaining time
History – shows the latest earthquakes in your area
Safety Tips – shows safety instructions during an earthquake
First Aid – shows some first aid procedures