{"id":838,"date":"2007-11-05T13:42:10","date_gmt":"2007-11-05T17:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/2007\/11\/05\/sgt-dan-powers-is-a-lucky-man\/"},"modified":"2007-11-05T13:42:10","modified_gmt":"2007-11-05T17:42:10","slug":"sgt-dan-powers-is-a-lucky-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=838","title":{"rendered":"SGT Dan Powers is a Lucky Man"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/i.l.cnn.net\/cnn\/2007\/HEALTH\/11\/05\/injured.soldier\/art.xray.jpg\" alt=\"CNN\/DOD pic\" \/><br \/>\nCNN has the fascinating story of Sgt Dan Powers of Fort Bragg&#8217;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.<br \/>\n     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 <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Powers says he still gets pretty bad headaches, but that a couple of aspirin makes them go away. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> Doctors will perform another surgery in January, Powers says he hopes to return to his job as squad leader in the spring. <\/p>\n<p>      Wow! SGT Powers is a VERY lucky man.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CNN has the fascinating story of Sgt Dan Powers of Fort Bragg&#8217;s 118th MP Company, who &hellip; <a title=\"SGT Dan Powers is a Lucky Man\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=838\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SGT Dan Powers is a Lucky Man<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-support-the-troops","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}