Crash victim meets his guardian angel

This is the kind of story that restores my hope that humanity has a chance.


http://www.silive.com/news/advance/index.ssf?/base/news/1066483003199830.xml


Emergency room nurse from Wales is credited with saving the life of a man who lost both legs


October 18, 2003

By MELISSA ANELLI
STATEN ISLAND ADVANCE

As soon as he was out of surgery, Paul Esposito, the 24-year-old Sea View resident who lost both legs in Wednesday's ferry crash, told his family about the young nurse with black hair, green eyes and a British accent, who saved his life.

But Kerry Griffiths, the 34-year-old Wales resident who stemmed the bleeding in Esposito's legs after they were mangled by a metal pole, thought it would be too forward to press the family for information on Esposito's condition.

She returned to her Manhattan hostel to write them a letter instead.

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Ms. Griffiths, who was on her first-ever ferry ride when the crash occurred, came upon Esposito in the chaos that followed. An operating room nurse, she asked Esposito if he wanted her to stay. He said yes.

"I just remember having a belt. I might have even said, 'Get me a belt,'" she said. Once she had one in her hands, she wrapped it around Esposito's legs to stop the blood flow, an action doctors said saved his life.

Ack...got something in my eye...

:toast:

truly wonderful story.

when the stuff seriously hits the fan, some people can be heroes *s*

thanks soleft! That Kerry Griffiths is an angel.