The Minnesota Woman Who Froze Solid Overnight — And The Medical Miracle That Saved Her Life
Her skin was hard.
Not cold in the way that chilled skin is cold — hard.
The hardness of tissue that has been deeply frozen, that has lost its normal pliability, that resists deformation in the way that solid materials resist deformation.
When Dr.
George Sather attempted to draw blood or to insert an IV line — standard first steps in the treatment of any emergency patient — the needles would not go in.
He was pressing a hypodermic needle against skin that had the consistency of frozen meat, and the needle bent before it penetrated.
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