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Originally Posted by 72_Wilderness
Could it be a shock to the person and a recovery time for the shock?
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Could be. But what is "shock" to one person versus another?
Kinda similar to your situation but with a more graphic outcome:
When I was about 14, my brother was out in the yard cutting down a tree trunk with a chain saw and he slipped and cut his big toe off (okay, the fact he was barefoot while doing this is a whole other story about stupidity and Darwin awards but nevertheless)....
There were 3 people out in the yard besides me when this went down. EVERY single one of them stood there "in shock". I was the only one that flew over to him, threw a compress on his foot (my shirt) and screamed at my mother to go fill a bag full of ice. She finally moved when she had something to do. She had no idea why she was doing it though... lol. When she came out with the bag of ice, I picked his toe out of the grass (sorry if this is gross), and threw it in the ice and finally got people to help get bro in the car to head for ER. He puked twice in the car... he was going into "bonafied shock"... physical, not emotional.
SO, my question is... I was the youngest person out there in the yard... and EVERYONE else froze. Why didn't I?
There have been several situations like this before and since then.
It's not just a matter of self-preservation that enters the realm of fear.... for me fear can be just as gripping if a loved one is in danger (if not more so... actually sometimes it IS more so). And yet 98% of the time it makes me focus and move...not freeze.
SO....
This is why I am asking... how much of this is about training, and how much of it is innate? NO ONE seems to want to address this question here. Which seems interesting to me.
m1
P.S. Yes, they were able to reattach his toe...which was a darn miracle considering how mangled it was... it's not like a chainsaw makes a super clean cut on small areas. It doesn't look perfectly pretty, but its functional and thats all that matters at the end of the day. The ER doc asked how I knew to throw it on ice and transport. I told him I read lots.
