SGT Dan Powers is a Lucky Man

CNN has the fascinating story of Sgt Dan Powers of Fort Bragg’s 118th MP Company, who while investigating an explosion in a Baghdad neighborhood was stabbed in the head with a NINE INCH KNIFE. His fellow soldiers rushed him back to their base from where he was rushed to a top notch hospital in Balad. LTC Dr Teff an Army neurosurgeon, operated on Powers with a long LONG distance assist from vascular surgeon LTC Rocco Armonda who watched the procedure in real time on his laptop while pulled over to the side of a highway.
SGT Powers was flown to Bethesda where further surgery was performed, leaving him in a drug induced coma for four long days, with doctors concerned he would awaken blind or with brain damage. Remarkably, he only had a little difficulty with balance. Now at home in North Carolina

Powers says he still gets pretty bad headaches, but that a couple of aspirin makes them go away.

Doctors will perform another surgery in January, Powers says he hopes to return to his job as squad leader in the spring.

Wow! SGT Powers is a VERY lucky man.