Epidural Hematoma is what Natasha Richardson from died from this week. And if you never heard of it before then this what it means:
Epidural hematoma is as deadly as it sounds. It is a brain injury in which there is a traumatic accumulation of blood between the skull and the dura mater. The dura is a membrane that protects the brain. It also provides nourishment to the brain with blood and spinal fluid. Due to a trauma, like a blow on the head, there is an increase in the accretion of blood, which puts direct pressure in the intercranial space. This pressure can have an adverse effect on the delicate brain tissues, even leading to death.
A woman with "a heart for Jesus" was shot in the stomach Sunday by an errant arrow that came flying out of the Bronx sky as she was dropping off churchgoers at a nursing home.
Denise Delgado-Brown, 50, of Yonkers, clutched the shaft of the 30-inch long arrow that pierced her 2 inches above her bellybutton and screamed for her friends to call 911.
"They shot me with an arrow," Delgado-Brown moaned incredulously as she staggered behind her maroon Kia SUV and collapsed. "I thought it was a joke," said Olga Rivera, one of two women the victim was dropping off at the Frances Schervier Nursing Care Center in Riverdale when the bizarre incident occurred about 1:30 p.m. "She wanted to take it out, but I told her not to."
Cops raced to the nursing home on Independence Ave. and scoured nearby Henry Hudson Park, Seton Park and a wooded picnic area behind the nursing home, even using a helicopter to search from the air.
As night fell, the phantom archer remained on the loose.
Police said it appeared to be a random shooting and that Delgado-Brown was not necessarily a target, but that did little to calm the fears of locals.
*This is really a crazy story. Who would think of being hit by an arrow now-a-days. Go figure!
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