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<blockquote data-quote="Allen" data-source="post: 326342" data-attributes="member: 389"><p>Here's the Newsweek article on it as well.</p><p></p><p>Note, I don't think the author has ever fished a day in his life.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I see the images didn't come through, but in the link (<a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/man-impales-own-heart-in-freak-fishing-accident/ar-AAMmwus?ocid=msedgntp" target="_blank">Man Impales Own Heart in 'Freak' Fishing Accident (msn.com)</a>), they are using a picture of a man holding a fly fishing rod. I'm certainly not an expert in fly fishing, but I can't imagine many use a BB on a fly rod.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><strong>Man Impales Own Heart in 'Freak' Fishing Accident</strong></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: #666666"><span style="font-family: inherit">James Crump 2 hrs ago</span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></p></span></span></p><p style="text-align: center"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></p><p><span style="font-family: inherit"><span style="color: 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inherit"></span></span></a></em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em><em><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/attorney-for-capitol-rioter-melts-down-on-cnn-s-new-day-gets-cut-off-while-yelling-about-torture/ar-AAMmMfk?ocid=msedgntp" target="_blank"><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></a></em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em><em><a href="https://www.msn.com/en-us/entertainment/news/attorney-for-capitol-rioter-melts-down-on-cnn-s-new-day-gets-cut-off-while-yelling-about-torture/ar-AAMmMfk?ocid=msedgntp" target="_blank"></a></em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em><img src="https://nodakangler.com/forums/cache.php?img=https%3A%2F%2Fnodakangler.com%2Fforums%2Fimage%2Fpng%3Bbase64%2CiVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mNkYAAAAAYAAjCB0C8AAAAASUVORK5CYII%3D" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />A <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-which-states-are-getting-hit-hardest-delta-variant-1610598" target="_blank">South Dakota</a> man said that surviving having his heart impaled while reeling in a fish earlier this month "was better than winning the lottery."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em><img 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alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /><span style="color: #666666"><span style="color: #000000">© campbellphotostudio/iStock / Getty Images Plus</span> File photo of a sunrise over the marsh with man holding a fly rod and reel. A South Dakota man has said that surviving having his heart impaled by a fishing hook while reeling in a fish earlier this month "was better than winning the lottery."</span>Todd Thesenvitz was reeling in a northern pike <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/endangered-salmon-species-california-river-expected-totally-die-out-due-heat-wave-1609758" target="_blank">fish</a> at a lake near the city of Clark, South Dakota, at around 11:15 a.m. on July 7 when part of his gear broke, causing a section of his fishing hook to fly into his chest, according to a <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/facebook" target="_blank">Facebook</a> post by his wife Marie Thesenvitz.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>"I seen the bottom bouncer come flying towards me like in slow motion," he explained to <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/nbc" target="_blank">NBC</a> affiliate KELO about the ordeal. "Well I thought it just hit me in the chest, but when it hit me in the chest I felt something right here and then I realized that it was stuck inside of me."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>He explained to the local outlet that he looked down and saw that the hook had gone into the "left ventricle in my heart. There's a sack around your heart. It went through that and into the heart muscle itself."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>His wife and his daughter, Keanna Thesenvitz, who is a nurse, joined him on the <a href="https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-weird-3-5ft-long-opah-fish-washed-oregon-beach-rare-find-1610402" target="_blank">fishing</a> trip and the pair helped him through the ordeal as they took him back to land to get medical attention.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>His daughter said that her first thought was to not pull the hook out, but explained that it was difficult as "whenever anything happens, you instantly want to get it out of you cause you think that would help."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>Todd Thesenvitz's wife drove the family's boat back to the landing at the lake, where first responders were waiting for her husband, but explained to KELO that the journey back to land was difficult.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>"Every wave that it hit was making him scream in more pain, so it was nerve-racking, and I just had to kind of keep looking over my shoulder, but I knew that Keanna had him and I knew she was going to take care of him," Marie Thesenvitz said.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>After the boat got back to land, Todd Thesenvitz was taken to a local hospital before being airlifted to Sioux Falls where he underwent successful surgery to remove the hook from his chest.</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>"They're like it's a one in a million chance that you're still here with us. Had I pulled it out, they said within 30 minutes you'd definitely been dead," he said, before adding that surviving the ordeal was "better than winning the lottery."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>In the Facebook post Marie Thesenvitz said that the surgeon told her that "there was no reason Todd was still alive," and informed her that "a lesser man would be dead."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>She called the incident a "freak accident" and thanked people for their "prayers and your positive energies! My husband is alive and healing."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em>Although he is currently not allowed to lift anything weighing more than 10 pounds, Todd Thesenvitz told KELO that he is doing well, as his wife said that "we are truly blessed. Truly, truly blessed."</em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"><em></em></span></span></p><p><span style="color: #333333"><span style="font-family: inherit"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Allen, post: 326342, member: 389"] Here's the Newsweek article on it as well. Note, I don't think the author has ever fished a day in his life. I see the images didn't come through, but in the link ([URL="https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/offbeat/man-impales-own-heart-in-freak-fishing-accident/ar-AAMmwus?ocid=msedgntp"]Man Impales Own Heart in 'Freak' Fishing Accident (msn.com)[/URL]), they are using a picture of a man holding a fly fishing rod. I'm certainly not an expert in fly fishing, but I can't imagine many use a BB on a fly rod. 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A South Dakota man has said that surviving having his heart impaled by a fishing hook while reeling in a fish earlier this month "was better than winning the lottery."[/COLOR]Todd Thesenvitz was reeling in a northern pike [URL="https://www.newsweek.com/endangered-salmon-species-california-river-expected-totally-die-out-due-heat-wave-1609758"]fish[/URL] at a lake near the city of Clark, South Dakota, at around 11:15 a.m. on July 7 when part of his gear broke, causing a section of his fishing hook to fly into his chest, according to a [URL="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/facebook"]Facebook[/URL] post by his wife Marie Thesenvitz. "I seen the bottom bouncer come flying towards me like in slow motion," he explained to [URL="https://www.newsweek.com/topic/nbc"]NBC[/URL] affiliate KELO about the ordeal. "Well I thought it just hit me in the chest, but when it hit me in the chest I felt something right here and then I realized that it was stuck inside of me." He explained to the local outlet that he looked down and saw that the hook had gone into the "left ventricle in my heart. There's a sack around your heart. It went through that and into the heart muscle itself." His wife and his daughter, Keanna Thesenvitz, who is a nurse, joined him on the [URL="https://www.newsweek.com/photos-show-weird-3-5ft-long-opah-fish-washed-oregon-beach-rare-find-1610402"]fishing[/URL] trip and the pair helped him through the ordeal as they took him back to land to get medical attention. His daughter said that her first thought was to not pull the hook out, but explained that it was difficult as "whenever anything happens, you instantly want to get it out of you cause you think that would help." Todd Thesenvitz's wife drove the family's boat back to the landing at the lake, where first responders were waiting for her husband, but explained to KELO that the journey back to land was difficult. "Every wave that it hit was making him scream in more pain, so it was nerve-racking, and I just had to kind of keep looking over my shoulder, but I knew that Keanna had him and I knew she was going to take care of him," Marie Thesenvitz said. After the boat got back to land, Todd Thesenvitz was taken to a local hospital before being airlifted to Sioux Falls where he underwent successful surgery to remove the hook from his chest. "They're like it's a one in a million chance that you're still here with us. Had I pulled it out, they said within 30 minutes you'd definitely been dead," he said, before adding that surviving the ordeal was "better than winning the lottery." In the Facebook post Marie Thesenvitz said that the surgeon told her that "there was no reason Todd was still alive," and informed her that "a lesser man would be dead." She called the incident a "freak accident" and thanked people for their "prayers and your positive energies! My husband is alive and healing." Although he is currently not allowed to lift anything weighing more than 10 pounds, Todd Thesenvitz told KELO that he is doing well, as his wife said that "we are truly blessed. Truly, truly blessed." [/I] [/FONT][/COLOR] [/QUOTE]
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