The Most Painful Death Ever (VIEWER DISCRETION)

Human history is littered with stories and legends about unimaginably terrible ways to die, from ancient torture methods to a slow

death

at the hands of nature. There are so many terrible Fates that plague our stories, but despite all that, I have n

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heard of a

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as horribly

painful

as the death of Hisashi Uchi hello

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yone, today we are going to talk about the Tokimura nuclear incident in 1999 and the tragic fate that befell a man because of it, this story is one that, again, if you're weird like me and listen to disturbing stories on YouTube that you may have heard about before.

Images of Hisashi's injuries, some real and some fake, circulated around the Internet like the

most

radioactive man who ever lived, but in researching this video, the details that stood out to me the

most

were the graphics. and almost unimaginable injuries that took over his body, some of the most brutal descriptions I have ever read in a medical case, so today as we talk about the story of Hisashi, his family, the medical team that tried to save his life, and his bosses who were responsible for this accident I also want to talk about several of the injuries they suffered and why this case left a lasting impact on everyone who was involved in it, so I want to put a content warning now if you are squeamish about the descriptions of the injuries and some images. of injuries do not watch this video.

I didn't even know some of these injuries were possible let alone during the time period and intensity at which they occurred. I have legitimately lost sleep reading books and interviews with people involved and it has bothered me. Regarding the question of when a life is worth saving or, more specifically, when it stops being worth saving, it is a very tragic case, but I think it deserves to be told, so if that seems interesting to you or is a step , it's sad, it's not. Interesting, if that's something you want to hear about and go on this existential journey with me, then stick around while we talk about the most

painful

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Thank you all very much for watching the ad. Many thanks to Scentbird for sponsoring this video. It really means that I hope everyone sees them. The link is in the description and we return to the video. Let's go ahead and get into it, but as always, thanks for watching. In 1999, Hisashi worked for the Japanese Nuclear Fuel Conversion Company or JCO. JCO owned several nuclear or adjacent nuclear facilities throughout Japan, one of them was the Tokai Miro plant, which was located in the Ibaraki prefecture of Japan, now the Tokai Mira plant was not a nuclear facility, but was a staging area. where they manufactured the materials for nuclear reactors;

In other words, there was no live nuclear reaction at the Tokai mura plant, they simply made the fuel rods which were then sent to the nuclear plants. The first stage of this process involves converting uranium hexafluoride into uranium dioxide. This involves a process of taking the uranium and then mixing it with the nitrate so that the uranium is stable enough to move sooner. It is then placed in a nuclear reactor. The way you're supposed to do it is by taking the uranium and nitric acid and pouring them into a small mixing tank, that mixture is then transferred to a large storage tank that prevents the uranium from reacting. with other uranium particles and becoming too unstable, it is then exhausted at the top of the storage tank and slowly fed into a precipitation tank that ensures everything is stabilized before they begin using it in the next steps of the process, while That's the government. approved safe method the way they were doing it at the Tokai Mira plant in 1999 was with the bucket, they would just take a stainless steel bucket, put uranium nitric acid in there, mix it and then pour it directly into the precipitation tank , now this was apparently something that was happening at many nuclear processing facilities at the time, you know, because it's cheaper than running all the heavy equipment and waiting and, despite the seemingly terrible idea of ​​people mixing uranium In a bucket held in your hands, there are no accidents. had happened third up to this point, the reason being that even though they were handling uranium in a way they should never handle it, the concentration of uranium was never enough to become dangerous, but almost all uranium conversion companies uranium in Japan were being unsafe, so the tokomaro plant was being very unsafe.

See, they had a history of freak business accidents. In 1997 there was an explosion at the facility that exposed several workers and nearby residents to radioactive materials. It appears that the 1997 accident involved them burning a pile of trash inside the plant. It was built inside an enclosed area and it just caused the air and unburned fuel to evaporate and eventually it exploded and caused a big bang and you know you don't want air rushing out of a radioactive material burning yard I guess. So realize we're dealing with a company that thinks it's okay to burn trash in a uranium processing plant.

This was the facility Hisashi Uchi worked at and then one day on September 30, 1999, around 10 a.m. m., his boss asked him to come help. with the process of pouring uranium, something Hisashi had never done before, so the boss took Hisashi and another man named masato hinoshara into the room to begin the conversion process and this process involved them simply taking a bucket, pouring the material to mix it and then handing it to one of them on the ladder so he can pour it into this giant storage tank. Now, even though this process is incredibly stupid, they were also breaking two other uranium safety rules for one of the correct storage tanks that we are supposed to use in this step these really tall cylinders and the reason is that if your surface is too wide and contains too much uranium that is too close to each other, it can cause a nuclear accident in simple terms, radioactive uranium.

It constantly shoots out neutrons and if one of these neutrons hits another uranium molecule, it can cause a reaction, which is why the storage tanks are literally thinner, so there are fewer uranium molecules next to each other, but because those Storage tanks are too high and difficult to pour. buckets on top, they were using shorter tanks instead, not safety approved, the other mistake they made came straight from JCO. CJCO was two days late on its order for nuclear rods and they wanted to increase production, so they had increased the concentration of uranium that the men were pouring into the tank, normally the concentration in the bucket is about five percent uranium. , while right now with Hisashi and the toe massage it's about 18 percent, so after they finish mixing one of the last cubes, Masato is standing on top of the tank. pouring the uranium solution and Hisashi walks over to his boss who is holding the funnel over the tank and tells his boss to go take a seat and Hisashi will take it from here, so with the three men in the room, one of them One of them has his hands just above the tank holding the funnel and the other is sitting at a desk a few feet from the tank while the men pour the bucket into the storage tank that now contains 70 liters or almost 20 gallons. uranium solution disaster occurs suddenly, the men here let out their applause and a bright blue light begins to emanate from inside the storage tank.

This blue light is a phenomenon known as Charinkov light. Charinkov lights occur whenever nuclear materials reach a critical state. Criticality is the state. From what I mentioned before, when uranium molecules are so close together that they have a sustained number of neutrons hitting them and then shooting off to hit other uranium molecules, that means the nuclear reaction has just reached a self-sustaining stage where the number of neutrons lost by the molecules and the number of neutrons gained remain constant, this is how nuclear energy works, if you put the materials inside a reactor and then they reach criticality, then they emit energy by simply existing, however, The key factor is this is what you want. happen inside a nuclear reactor and the criticality and trinkov light can be thought of as the reactor turning on, what that means is that by randomly dumping uranium into a storage tank they had now turned on a nuclear reactor discovered in the middle of the district by tokomuro. and the three men who were in that room had the rare misfortune of being some of the only people in human history to see a completely exposed nuclear reaction as soon as this happened at 10:35 a.m. m., alarms throughout the plant went off, his boss, who was sitting at the table a few meters away, shouted "run for your lives" and everyone reserved it for the door.

Hisachi arrived at a locker room that connected the room they were in to the rest of the facility as soon as Hisashi reached that room. He began to vomit and fainted at the critical moment the neutron rays that were being emitted in the reaction hit everyone in the room these neutron rays passed through the tissue tissue and irradiated everything they came into contact with the sievert is a measure of radiation exposure and the number of sieverts it is considered healthy to be exposed to per year is about one thousandth of a sievert or, in other words, about one millisievert per year.

If you are a new nuclear worker, sometimes you can manipulate the numbers and come up with a little more, but never more, like 20 millisieverts a year, so keep in mind that one is the safe amount for a year at the critical moment the boss who was sitting at the desk was exposed to about 3,000 millisieverts Masato who was pouring the bucket was exposed to about 8,000 millisieverts and Hisashi, who was standing next to the tank and had his hand hanging over it, was exposed to about twenty thousand, now Between seven and eight thousand millisieverts is considered a lethal dose and they initially thought Hisashi had been exposed to about 8,000 millisieverts. 8,000, so maybe there was a chance to save him, but looking at the chromosomal damage that happened to him, which we'll talk about in a minute, it seems like the number was closer to twenty thousand, so Hisashi experienced twenty thousand times the safe amount of radiation that can be absorbed in a year in a few seconds and somehow she was still alive the critical moment caused great panic 350 meters from the plant all the houses were evacuated and even 10 kilometers away they told Meanwhile, workers, including Hisashi Masato and his boss, were evacuated from the facility and after approximately 20 hours managed to stop the criticality due to the amount of uranium in the storage tank, still It was a very low amount compared to, you know, nuclear reactor, so there was no effectpermanent in the region;

However, the same could not be said for those three men, that same day a doctor named Makawa was called regarding the incident. Makawa was one of Japan's leading experts when it came to radiation sickness and radiation treatment after learning that the incident at the plant was a critical incident. Makawa was surprised that anyone had survived it all, so Makawa began to form a team to evaluate the condition of the three victims to whom the boss had been exposed again approximately three thousand millisieverts, which is not uncommon in material accidents. nuclear weapons and we'll talk about what happened to him later.

Masada was also evaluated, but since he did not receive as much radiation as Hisashi, his case was less critical and we will talk again. About what happened to him next, Makawa's main concern was Hisashi, who initially remembers that they thought he had received around 8,000 millisieverts, which is a lethal dose, which is why he required the most immediate attention, although it would later turn out to be more than double the first signs. that something was really wrong with Hisashi, other than the vomiting, which is pretty typical of radiation exposure, his lymphocyte count. Lymphocytes are an important part of the immune system and a part of the white blood cell content in a healthy person.

The concentration of lymphocytes in his white blood. blood cells are 25 to 48 percent depending on each time they received Hisashi's results which were taken nine hours after exposure, his level had dropped to 1.9 percent, so his immune system was collapsing quickly. Makawa visits Hisashi in the hospital and to our surprise Hisashi looks fine, the only symptoms he had were a red face and bloodshot eyes and the only pain he said he was currently experiencing was a pain just below his ear right and a pain in his right hand if you remember that his right hand was the closest part of his body to the nuclear reaction.

Now, while this may seem shocking, it is actually to be expected. Radiation sickness occurs in four stages. The first stage known as the prodrome stage is the initial literal gut reaction to radiation exposure. Whenever someone is bombarded with too much radiation, they may vomit or have diarrhea. as a kind of quick and nauseating attempt to expel materials from inside the body, but after that, which usually only lasts a few hours, there is something called the latency period, in the second stage, the body is being destroyed by radiation and Symptoms are not yet known, while there may be some pain and discomfort, the patient is usually fine during this period of time;

However, after the latency period is the manifestation stage, when the damage caused by radiation begins to make itself known, as the person can develop anything from a shutdown of the immune system due to skin burns and various other symptoms we are about to see and then the fourth stage is recovery or death, so during this period of time the radiation is destroying Hisashi's body, the effects are simply not known to him. or other people in makawa who have seen this before know that this is the theoretical increase of the hammer by radiation and wants to be there when the hammer hits, so mankawa has Hisashi transported to his team and his facility at the University Hospital of Tokyo.

The transfer occurs on October 2, three days after his exposure, the first device used to artificially assist Hisashi is a breathing apparatus. See his chest started to hurt while he was breathing so he started taking very short and shallow breaths so they hooked him up to a breathing mask which essentially forced his lungs to breathe through the pain now in radiation sickness the The first parts of the body to be destroyed are the mucous membranes and the immune system, so any part of your body that secretes something like the lining of the intestine or saliva The glands in your mouth or the mucous glands in your nose are almost always fried, which means that processes such as digestion become much more difficult and the radiation has a particularly strong effect on the bone marrow, meaning that all production by your immune system stops completely or is delayed for at some point.

That means that for patients suffering from radiation sickness it is very difficult to keep nutrients in their body and it is also very difficult to ensure that they do not get sick because an otherwise harmless infection can quickly become lethal when their body has no There is no way to combat it, so because of this, the two private rooms at Tokyo University Hospital were effectively turned into a quarantine zone. Now, generally with radioactive patients there is a risk of people around the patient being irradiated, because most of the time the radiation exposure comes from radioactive materials such as if there is a fire and the smoke radiates. and that reaches people or they come into contact with irradiated water or something radioactive explodes and they touch the debris from the explosion then that person is not only exposed to radiation but there is enough material on or in their body to expose people that surround them to radiation.

However, if there is any advantage in this case, it is that it was not the case with Hisashi because, if you remember, he never came into contact with him. materials, it was only the fact that a small nuclear reactor was uncovered right next to him that caused him to be irradiated, so normally the people who came to treat Hisashi had to dress fully and take precautions against contracting. radiation sickness because this scenario is so unique and a critical incident, the doctors and nurses didn't have to worry about exposure, what they did have to worry about was exposing Hisashi to anything.

Remember that his immune system was injected to be able to have a bacteria or a virus. For them that is harmless to them, but if they get close to Hisashi it could kill him, so the two private rooms of the hospital became a sterile field where one room was used for staging and cleaning and sterile materials and the next room It was equipped with curtains everywhere they held Hisashi. All the nurses and doctors said that it was a pleasure to be around Hisashi. They said that while they gave him food or rearranged his pillow or sheets, he constantly told them thank you and that he felt very honored to be there. having such kind and intelligent people taking care of him, one of the nurses even said that every time she came to bathe Hisashi in his bed because you know he can't get up to take a shower, every time she undressed him, he would. blush and say that he was very embarrassed and that they should ask his wife to come do it, they would talk to him about his personal life, how he loved to go fishing and loved the outdoors and despite the severity of his exposure, they were all amazed that his body, even after several days, seemed to be in good condition, apart from things like he needed the respirator to help him breathe, there didn't seem to be any external effects on his body, but that right hand that was so close from the accident the nurses said He just looked like he was sunburned and despite his exposure all the nurses were so hopeful about his condition and wanted him to live that on the charts during this time they wrote that their goal was to get him out of the hospital as well during this macabo time. was putting together a team of top doctors from 13 different departments, people who were experts in cell therapy, blood transfusions, gastroenterology, dermatology, just to name a few, most of them accepted this job not just to help a patient but because in all of human history no one had ever been exposed to that amount of radiation and lived, and everyone on the team was aware that, despite being the pioneers in their field, they are entering completely new territory. unexplored, so this team developed a system that every day they came in at 7:00 am to evaluate.

Hisashi's condition from there at 8 a.m. They would have a meeting where they would discuss treatments and what to do for the rest of the day, then there would be a second meeting at 6 p.m. where they would review how that day's treatments worked and what they needed to do during the night and day ahead, these meetings were held twice a day in a conference room at Tokyo University Hospital, for each day Hisashi was there, These meetings would contain dozens of people, from specialists in their field to nurses providing care. and sometimes lasted up to two hours, most of the staff who were working on the case actually lived in the hospital while Hisashi was there and although the experts knew that the worst was yet to come, hopes were high, they had gathered the best minds of Japan. around this guy and although they know that everyone knows that radiation has a latency period and is going to get worse at any moment, there is no better place to get sick than in a professional hospital with dozens of the best Minds in the world ready to treat you during this time Hisashi's family began to live in the hospital, Hisashi's wife, his son who was in third grade, his parents, sister and brother-in-law practically lived in the waiting room on the first floor of the hospital, all of them They began to develop relationships with the doctors and nurses and they came to see Hisashi whenever visiting hours were allowed.

However, according to the nurses, Hisashi's son only saw him once and many believe that the mother did not want her son to see her father. As his condition worsened, one of the nurses also mentioned that during this first week Hisashi was sitting on his bed and then asked, "Hey, people who are exposed to radiation probably develop leukemia and this made the nerves recover." and he told them". that he shouldn't worry about it and the tragedy sets in that he doesn't realize what is about to happen because leukemia, a disease that can develop over time and could take months or years to be fatal, is nothing compared with what is about to happen.

Very soon the first signs of how bad this was going to be happened on October 5th the doctors took a sample of Hisashi's bone marrow to see how bad his immune system had been attacked and when they looked at the micrograph most of them didn't. they could. I can't believe what they were seeing, so, for context, chromosomes are the part of his body that is effectively the blueprint for how his body is built. Your chromosomes exist in every cell and without them your body cannot build anything you can imagine. as a basis and map for how new cells reproduce, so if their chromosomes are damaged, that means that any new cells reproduced by that cell will also be damaged or malformed When they looked at the micrograph to see what Hisashi's bone marrow looked like . this is the chromosome mapping of a healthy person and this is what hisashi looked like this is not damage to your immune system this is a wipe of your immune system the experts couldn't even look at this and tell which of the chromosomes was damaged or destroyed because then there may be some way to treat it, it was just seeing that everyone had been eliminated, the doctors had imagined that a transplant would be necessary, but now there is no doubt if Hisashi's body will ever be able to recover because right now it won't.

I don't even have the tools to make new immune cells after seeing the severity of this they started a new procedure where they did something called a PCR test and PCR tests have been around for a while but in 1999 there was a new way of do it. Get results in a few hours instead of sending them to a lab. A PCR test allows you to see the early stages of an infection, whether it's a virus, bacteria or fungus, so you can see if a microbe is present before it starts to appear. symptoms, so they did this to Hisashi several times a day because if this guy catches a cold, he will kill him quickly because his body has no defenses.

Some other numbers for you nerds like me, his white blood cell count was about 900 which is a tenth of what it should be and his platelet count was about 26,000. healthy people have between 120 and 380,000 .so the first thing you need to do is get this guy a bone marrow transplant. Your best option for this is a stem cell graft where the cells are placed into the bone marrow where, hopefully, your system will accept the transplant and then use that chromosome code as a new blueprint to be able to rebuild your bone marrow. The problem with this is that the donor and recipient must be exactly the same in their HLA or leukocyte antigens, however, fortunately, even though siblings only had a one in four chance of being a match, Hisashi's sister was a match. and his sister was moreShe was willing to give up everything her brother needed to keep him alive, so they gave him a medication that increased the production of stem cells in his blood and then gave him a peripheral blood transfusion;

In other words, normally they have to go to the bone marrow and take a sample, but all they did here was spike your body with a lot of stem cells and then they were hooked. she to a machine that removed the blood from her body, separated the blood from the stem cells and then returned it to her body, while a normal donation would require a not enormous amount of stem cells from which they had to rebuild the body by Hisashi. scratch and they ended up taking 160 milliliters of stem cells from Hisashi's sister and a process that took four and a half hours, so they gave her the transfusion and they just had to wait to see if she took root, meanwhile the effects began to be noticed.

At first she prepared Hisashi, as mentioned, there were some minor pains and then she had trouble breathing and she started to get very thirsty and dehydrated again. Her body can't produce any more mucous linings, so her entire system is drying out in the most terrifying way. The development came when, just after a week since his exposure, he started losing chunks of his skin in Mass. It started every time they took off the medical tape he had on to change tubes or needles, they would simply tear off entire sections of his skin. At the same time, the nurses washing his feet had to stop because every time they rubbed his feet, the skin just peeled off.

Remember the whole system I described with the bone marrow, where normally the cells that need to be regenerated cannot be regenerated. It already regenerated well the same was applied to hisashi's skin the skin for those who don't know is constantly growing from the lowest layer of the skin or the subcutaneous layer to the epidermis in about two weeks the top layer of the skin It goes through a complete cycle and the dead cells just fall off, but if your body can't make new cells, then your whole layer of skin just falls off the rest of you and you just exist in it like it's some kind of suit and this dead layer of skin. which was disconnected but still completely wrapped around it was just coming off in clumps, the only silver lining to this was that the skin was effectively dead and attached in several spots, it didn't cause much bleeding because bleeding was also a major concern if you remember that his platelet count was very low, meaning that, in theory, even the smallest cut or puncture could cause him to bleed to death because if he starts bleeding, his body has no way to stop it.

On October 6 she had an x-ray. They saw what the problem was with her lungs, they thought there was obviously radiation damage, but maybe something was putting pressure on her lungs, which was causing her labor to breathe on the x-ray, they saw a dark shadow over her lungs. , this could be anything from a buildup of fluid or perhaps blood leaking into the lung cavity; However, the normal treatment for this would be to simply punch a hole in the lung and then remove the fluid, if you remember they are afraid to make it start bleeding because they are afraid that they won't be able to stop it, so the only thing they can do is simply starting the machine to make him breathe through pressure, so the machine went from helping him breathe and you know, giving him oxygen to actively pushing air into his mouth making his chest expand and then sucking him back in, meaning that every time Hisashi tried to breathe normally he was fighting the positive and negative pressure of the machine, not to mention the intensity of the burn he was learning.

He was exercising both inside his body and from the layer of skin that was starting to peel off now it was even more intense, so when they started this machine it was unbearable, it was every part of his body that was part of the breathing, It was burning and yelling at him to stop and the machine was breathing for him anyway while they did it Hisashi cried and screamed through the machine telling them to stop so he could turn it off, he screamed for his wife and his mother and during the treatment he pushed the nurses backward.

He took off his mask and shouted, "I'm not a guinea pig." This made everyone in the room recoil, but after someone mentioned Hisashi's family, he realized that even though it was painful for him, he needed to endure it for them, so he allowed them to put the dough back on him and suffered. Also during this time you are probably wondering why they aren't giving him pain medication and the answer is yes, but it probably isn't doing much since they had to calculate how much medication they could give him. that didn't have any side effects with any of the other dozens of medications that were going through a system and it also turns out that in later stages of what happened to him, his blood flow was effectively spiked and a lot of things were administered via intravenous.

He had trouble going anywhere, so even if his chest and face burned and hurt every time the machine breathed for him, giving him a shot in the arm to numb him probably didn't help much, which, speaking of drugs , there were so many strange things. advances or I guess advances made in pharmaceuticals just because of this case, like there's a drug called pintoxicillin that was recently banned in Japan and it normally existed in oral form because I think I had more serious liver problems or something, but it was the only medication that Did you not know caused side effects with other drugs that were in his system?

So they tried to get approval from the Japanese government to use them and then after a week they did, but then, as mentioned, a lot of the mucous linings on it fell apart. can't ingest it, so they eventually end up finding a distributor in Thailand who can get them the raw ingredients for a version of Venus that can be injected, so a doctor drives to an airport at six in the morning where the delivery is made He is given a vial of this medication from Thailand and driven back to the hospital several times. They had to obtain the raw ingredients of the medicines and synthesize them in new ways on site so that they could be administered with different methods also in this era.

Doctors from all over the world came to help in this case Doctors and researchers who had worked in Chernobyl Members of the American, Russian and German delegations almost at the same time that these people began to appear around October 10 Hisashi gave his final messages with his own words for his wife and family something that the nurses mentioned is that never in hisashi's presence did his wife cry, the mother and father came in and cried, the sister cried in front of him, but every time hisashi's wife came into that room she was smiling, she was talking about the memories of how they met, she was talking about how strong and handsome he is, not once near him did she shed a tear because his wife knew that if he broke down, then what else What should Hisashi do? was gone and she wanted to be that image for him of something to continue living for, so on October 10, Hisashi gave his last messages to his wife about how much he loved her before he was placed on a breathing tube, the machine that was pumping.

The oxygen over his mouth couldn't last long, it was putting strain on his throat and obviously pain in his body, so they decided to hook him up to a breathing tube. October 10 was the last time Hisashi spoke, meaning that his last words were most likely and I love you to his wife, they could still communicate with him after this. You know, he was still conscious and could look at people. He answered yes or no questions with a nod or a squeeze. He held people's hands. and point things out so that your Consciousness would still be fine for now and everyone would still have hope that you would eventually come out of the breathing tube again with radiation sickness after the symptoms started forming, you just have to treat the symptoms and hold on with luck. get to the other side once the body has regenerated enough to be able to defend itself, also during this time mikawa, the head doctor, replaced the furniture in the waiting room with bright and cheerful colors because hisashi's family basically lived in that waiting room, so he had new beds put in so they could sleep there.

Board games and things were added to make his stay a little better. The family was also very supportive of the doctors and nurses. Every time the macaw did something like that, they thanked him. and every night Makawa would go down to that waiting room and give the family a very detailed description of what had happened that day. The family was very attentive. They were very grateful for the doctor's care and something the nurses said was that one The only thing they did while they were in that waiting room was fold little paper cranes and as you know, Hisashi's grandfather and son or should I say father and son would just sit at a table in the waiting room. and I just folded paper cranes all day and the nurses started enjoying, you know, walking up to the first floor of the hospital and seeing little paper cranes placed everywhere and, for some good news at the time, remember that the count of white blood cells was good.

It went down from 900 to 100, but after the transfusion with his sister it went back up to 8,000 at one point and that lymphocyte count that had dropped to 1.9 percent went up to 20 percent, so it seems that the transfusion took and now his body is building a new immune system, this gave many people hope that in these perfect conditions the most radioactive man who ever survived could survive the radiation sickness and since Hisashi couldn't speak at that time , they brought the disinfected stereos, of course, in the room with Hisashi and his family they brought the music that he liked and they just played it on loop while he lay in the hospital bed, they didn't want to turn on the news because at that moment The case Hisashi's was quite big in the media mainly because there was already a lot of controversy surrounding nuclear power and the JCO company, so he was being heavily publicized as a victim of the company and they didn't want the news to appear. on the radio and Hisashi hears a reporter say how and that man in the hospital who is definitely going to die because they murdered him so badly that instead of filling his head with it, they would play music from his family or just play sounds of nature and the water running through a stream and birds in the trees and it seemed like at that point things were getting better, that is, until they did another micrograph of his immune system, took another micrograph to see how his chromosomes were doing from his transfusion. sister and From that they saw that about 10 percent of their sister's chromosomes were damaged, meaning that even the new transplants that were placed in her body were being damaged.

If it was a radiation exposure from a radioactive material, then that might make sense if you had inhaled it, say. radioactive fumes or something and they were still in his lungs and through his bloodstream, that would make sense that the new transplanted things you put in would be damaged, however, it was a neutron beam that hit him, it was the equivalent of like a shot that went through him. There is no lasting effect that should have on anything that is put in her body because you know that the chromosomes that were in her sister's body were not there to be irradiated but appeared in her system more than a week after she was exposed to radiation and somehow they still got damaged, it's like you get shot and need a liver transplant and then a week after you get the transplant the liver develops a gunshot wound, it didn't make sense and the scientists scratched head and thought it might have been Radioactivation: something where beams of neutrons fly into the body and they say if it hits a particle of sodium or potassium, it can make those little particles radioactive, but that tends to go away in less than a day and again the transfusion was a week after the other.

The theory is that his body was so damaged that something called the bystander effect was happening, where the oxygen free radicals in his system were simply being recycled through his system over and over again and effectively, any new cells that entered his body were damaged. along with everything. Otherwise, regardless of what the reason was, Hisashi's body was so messed up that even if you gave him new cells to work with, he wouldn't be able to properly take care of those cells. Also, around this time, on October 15, another major problem developed, making it one of the most common causes of death from radiation sickness, you know,In addition to radiation, it's gastrointestinal bleeding, so we've established that radiation affects your body's ability to stop bleeding, and because it also damages your immune system, if something gets into your body, you can get sick and die. and if something starts to leave the body, it's hard to stop it from leaving the body, so what often happens with people who experience radiation sickness is they start bleeding somewhere in the gastrointestinal tract and the only symptom that can be seen . is that they start passing blood in their stool and since you can't open them to do surgery because you know you can't make them bleed, then they just die from that, so one of the big worries that Mikawa had is that if Hisashi starts bleeding in his intestine, they won't be able to fix it, so a gastroenterologist does an endoscope on October 15th.

The gastroenterologists later said that this was one of the scariest procedures of their life because any scratch or scrape that was made while they were inserting the camera could be fatal the site they saw on Hisashi's intestines wasn't great either they were horrible or at least not as horrible as the doctors thought they might be were still present all of his intestines were very tight they said it was most likely due to the level of pain he had been experiencing but where there were supposed to be alveoli found in these little ones folds along the lower intestine, they were all smooth, however, the mucous membrane of the lower intestine was still there, remember the mucosa.

The membranes are the first thing to go, however, the part of their intestine that absorbs nutrients and secretes slime is still present, which made Makawa hopeful because if they can get their intestines working, then they will be able to introduce all kinds of nutrients into them. your body, it's one thing to hook. putting an IV in and giving someone nutrients directly into their bloodstream, another is for their body to function to such a degree that it can process the nutrients on its own and if they need to reactivate their body, they will have to get their intestines working.

So, using a feeding tube passed through his nose as a test, they passed one hundred grams of protein into his stomach and then, a few hours later, the 100 grams of those nutrients left his body directly without absorbing a single bit. element. The gastrointestinal tract was supplying nutrients, which means that for now your entire digestive system is done, the only hope is that again if you can get your blood, breathing and immune system back so that your body can eventually repair the damaged cells with new ones as well. and on return. I guess from the title or thesis of this video you could say that I can't properly express how much pain Hisashi was going through at that moment, like the burning doesn't even come close to the feeling of every organ inside his body losing its skin. and slowly erodes. and ripped off to the point where everything stops working and the skin outside your body falls apart into these giant chunks and you can still fill every inch of it, it's excruciating in a way that I don't think has ever been recreated by maybe other radiation . victims, but again, none of them have had to endure it as long as Hisashi had even breathed, it would feel like he was tearing his lungs and the muscles inside of his chest.

Hopefully the painkillers were working, but at this point he couldn't speak to confirm. and every time the nurses touched any part of his body, he tensed up even more and began to retract his limbs as much as he could. It seemed like every waking second was agony during this time too, if you remember that pressure and fluid in his lungs are still there, but they can't cut his lungs out to get rid of them, so they put him in this specialized bed that effectively They lock his limbs in place and start rotating him from side to side so he doesn't get any sores. and so that the fluid in his lungs does not turn into pneumonia after seeing this one day his wife and sister commented and said oh honey they have turned you into a robot, he remained in the state of misery and continued the treatment normally until October 26th when he started having diarrhea now if you remember they are not putting anything into his intestine so his body is just excreting fluids.

Through the diarrhea now there were two options with the diarrhea, it could have been a symptom. Look, I told you this video was going to be gross, it could have just been a symptom of radiation sickness because that's something that happens with people exposed to radiation, but they were also afraid it might be something known as graft-versus disease. Host disease, or graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), is sort of the opposite of your body rejecting a transplant. See if you have something like a liver transplanted into your body, there is a chance that your body will reject it and your cells will start attacking it, but if you remember, Hisashi doesn't really have any organs that can defend himself nor any immune system to attack the liver cells. his sisters who were put into his body, so the fear was what if instead of his body. rejecting the transplant What happens if the transplant rejects his body and his sister's healthy cells start attacking him?

So they've created a much bigger problem, so every time he came in on October 26th and started having diarrhea, they wanted to check on him to make sure this was the case. It's not graft versus host disease so they did another endoscopy on his intestine and remember 10 days before they said the mucosal lining was still there and they thought maybe he could digest things well on October 26th there was nothing there, all that was left. It was the smooth muscle of the intestines with the mucous layer completely gone or white and dead hanging in some parts of the intestine.

On the plus side, this means he doesn't have graft versus host disease because time and time again I warned them about this. It's disgusting because the diarrhea he excreted was the liquefied parts of his intestines, but on the downside, it's unimaginable how his digestive tract could recover from this on October 28. World researchers began to arrive at Tokyo University Hospital and remembered it earlier. Experts were flying in to help with the treatment, but now researchers were coming to look at theoretical treatment options or to observe him to determine what it might mean for radiation sickness in the future because before Hisashi, the longest person to had ever lived after being exposed to a The criticality was nine days and on October 28th Hisashi has been alive for 29 days, so not only are these researchers coming to give their evaluation and advice, but now these global researchers They attend all the meetings that are held twice a day between Makawa and the hospital workers.

By the time the researchers got there, another new problem began to develop in Hisashi and that was the concentrations of myoglobin in his blood, so myoglobin is a protein that is present in the muscles and it seems that Hisashi's muscles were They were breaking down to such a degree that the proteins inside the muscles were leaking into their bloodstream. The reason this is a problem is because of something known as crush syndrome. Crush syndrome is exactly what it sounds like, a syndrome that can develop after someone has been physically crushed in cases such as earthquakes, when parts of buildings fall on top of people.

A phenomenon may occur where a rescue team saves them and an arm or leg is completely destroyed under the rubble and they are freed and are alive for a few days. and then suddenly they die of kidney failure, the reason is that their muscles are destroyed and shredded to such an extent that myoglobin flows through the bloodstream and usually the myoglobin is released through the kidneys, everyone has a little myoglobin in their blood and that's it. It's usually filtered through your kidneys, but if you get a lot of myoglobin at once, it clogs your kidneys and you die from kidney failure.

The normal amount of myoglobin that a human being has in their blood or at least the upper end of the healthy amount that a human can have in their blood is about 60 nanograms per milliliter at this time Hisashi had 1,800. So it appears that the right hand and arm that were close to the reaction each time it occurred were decomposing and irradiating to such a degree. that his muscles were liquefying and now the proteins have his muscles that are in his blood risk shutting down his kidney while they discuss their options the Russian delegate in the most Russian suggestion ever says that they should simply amputate the arm and if this were normal circumstances that would be true, his arm is effectively poisoning him, so you'd want to cut it off, but again, this is the guy they didn't want to do endoscopies on because they were afraid of cornering Nick and causing blood. to death so they can't cut off his arm, but sure enough his arm is melting and it's poisoning his entire body and it seems like a lot of his internal tissue was starting to dissolve and his body was trying to pass it through his system which He had about three liters of diarrhea a day, all from the internal parts of his body, just coming off of these regions of his body where the skin had been removed, like where the tape was, and on his feet they turned into blistered masses, these blisters. then he would burst and start losing fluid from his system, a lot of diarrhea and the fluid that came out of these blisters was not natural for his body.

He was hooked up to so many different IVs that were trying to pump out his system. with nutrients and fluids to keep him alive and although some of that required a lot of it, he just came out of it normally in situations like this, like for example a burn victim, you would cut off the bad or necrotic skin that is causing this and then just graft new skin, however with the radiation it was hard to tell which parts of his body were good and which parts were bad, again you can't just fillet the guy because then he'll bleed out, so they started wrapping him completely. his body with bandages and gauze effectively, this gauze acted as a new layer of skin because he had lost so much at this point that his body was letting out fluids and blood slowly and constantly, so the gauze acted as a temporary bear carrier in the that was wrapped. so much gauze that the only parts of his body that were exposed were his eyes and the tips of his feet his wife commented upon seeing him like this there is nowhere we can touch him now also keep in mind that he was constantly bleeding and seeping through these bandages so they had to be replaced daily, it took a team of 10 people three hours each day to change their bandages.

Another thing your skin does that you don't really think about until you need it is regulate your body temperature. The skin works as an insulator. layer that keeps all the heat inside, but now that Hisashi has lost most of his skin he can't regulate his body temperature, so every time they removed these bandages there was a real threat of him suffering from hypothermia because all the heat I would abandon him. So they kept the room he was in at 86 degrees Fahrenheit, meaning this 10-person team had to work through sweat and heat exhaustion for three hours straight to quickly change bandages all over his body. he.

They also had to be very careful with how they wrapped the bandages because any place too tight could destroy the muscle or what little skin was still there, they also weighed the bandages after taking them off because they put clean gauze on it, he soaked it for The amount of fluid in the bandage indicates how much fluid you have lost, so at that time you were losing about a liter of fluid a day through your skin. Additionally, at this point the lining around his eyes began to deteriorate and he began bleeding from his eyes. Also, all of his fingernails and toenails fell off normally, if they say it is a type of burn that is not radioactive, they could do a skin graft, however, they cannot do the skin graft due to the chromosomal damage that He has good skin. and the whole bleeding thing he had good skin too, if you remember, it was the front and right side of his body that was facing the reactor, so the back left side of his body was on the outside almost intact, he still suffered the biological damage, but her outer layer of skin was not rotting, so since the sister was a match for the stem cell transplant, they decided to use her skin to do a skin graft, this would take two to four weeks, but the sister provided a sample of his skin will be grown in a laboratory which could then be applied to hisachi.

Furthermore, the dermatologist who examined him during this time noticed that at the border of the burned skin and the healthy skin there were these little white dots that began to form, it turns out that thesespots were new skin cells, meaning that even if your body wasn't able to produce a new immune system or part of your digestive system, it seemed like you might eventually be able to grow new skin even though all the skin you had had currently been damaged, it looked like he might have healthy skin again at some point in the future, this is all assuming they can keep him alive for that long.

He continued this process of bandages and fluids until November, when he was losing about two. liters of fluid a day right through his skin, seeing that the problem was that serious and that he had the potential to develop new skin, they decided to place temporary skin grafts, in other words, they take skin grafts that they know would probably they will not accept because you know that the donor is not exactly suitable and effectively use the skin grafts as a replacement bandage because if they put the skin on the top of your body and it can hold at least for a while some of the fluid, then such Maybe that could cause your body to start the rebuilding process and grow your own skin, so on November 18th again, 50 days after the initial exposure, they decided to perform several temporary skin replacements.

They couldn't cut his body because again the whole thing was bleeding, so instead his skin was so weak that they would just take a towel or a sponge and rub parts of his skin a little and the whole skin would peel off, so after To take it off, they took these grafts and sewed them on top of each one. others, all connected in a sort of mosaic design that would then be rejected by his body, but seemed to last longer than the bandages and, hopefully, got his body to start building skin cells. Overall, Hisachi would end up going through 70 skin grafts, each of which would last around three or four days again, this was all in an attempt to get his body to start producing its own skin, but then, on the same day who were doing the skin grafts, which Makawa feared happened on November 18, examined Hisachi's stool. and indeed it contained blood which means he had bleeding somewhere in his intestines so they did another endoscope to see how bad the damage to the intestines is and his whole intestine is full of blood in fact he was excreting through your stool around 800 milliliters of blood a day however in the midst of this horrible information there was a slight sign of hope as I looked at the area between the small and large intestine were these little white dots that according to gastroenterologists looked like be new mucous membranes. membranes even though all the mucous membranes had been closed before and passed through a system, it seems that his body was trying to make new ones similar to the skin, it is like that, although it is a crack through the clouds, It is the faint sign that if they can weather this storm, their body will eventually repair itself, so despite the extent of their injuries, this encouraged them to keep going until the next day, November 19, when it was discovered that He was also bleeding in his stomach.

On November 19th, between the fluid seeping from his skin and the fluid excreting from his body, he was losing 10 liters of blood and fluids each day and everywhere he was bleeding they couldn't wait for the bleeding to stop because again his The platelet count was so low, the small repair that was made by his sister's transfusion had been undone by the damage to his body, so the only thing they could do was keep pumping him with more blood and whatever blood came into him. he would simply return, he was indeed. an open filter through which blood and fluids continued to pass got to the point that in half a day of the nursing shift they had to do 10 blood transfusions between it and the respirator and making sure that he didn't get sores and making sure that his skin didn't get damaged. fall and changing his bandages and everything else, it's amazing that this guy was technically alive with all the machines and drugs in one system, now hopefully during this time due to the intense level of damage done to his skin and you know many of his body systems that, hopefully, his nervous system stopped functioning, but if it didn't, he would live while his body rotted away, effectively he would be a conscious D composition, every system in his body was. bleeding and burning and falling apart and he survived that even with the most brutal torture methods you've ever heard of, like the boats where they put someone upside down, these two boats upside down and they pushed them into the water and they they filled with honey so that flies would lay eggs on their bodies and ants would crawl into them or stories of people being burned alive or things like the Brazen Bowl even in a situation like ships where they eat you from the inside out in at least your arms they're okay, at least your legs are okay, maybe you can, the top of your head isn't burning right, everything hurts here, but at least there are some limbs that are okay, and in cases where people are immolated , they simply burn alive.

It lasts an hour at most in some cases, which is still an excruciating amount of time, but it's usually over pretty quickly, but with Hisashi it had to fill every inch of his body with constant misery, rotting and falling off, and it didn't last long. a few minutes it didn't last an hour at the end of this it lasted 83 days there is no more painful brutal death that I can imagine maybe there are worse deaths depending on your definition of worse, maybe there are genocides that have been committed that are tragic or horrible stories of, say, children kidnapped before their time and things we could say are worse, but when it comes to the painful, I can't think and not do it.

I don't want to think of a scenario that tops this: watching your body rot away while you're still in it. Despite all this, his family was hopeful that his family would still come to see him on every visit, they would come up to him and talk about how strong and brave he was and the doctors would talk to him constantly every time the nurses came to see him. changing his bandages they still talked to him, they talked about the climate that was happening in the news or politics in the country. They always maintained that he was the same person now that he was when he was talking about fishing and how much he loved his wife the first week he arrived the question that many nurses and many doctors were asking at that time is That's right, how long will we keep him alive? this man?

And I wanted to tell a rumor right now. Every time you read about this case, a lot of the narrative around it is that, oh, these mad scientists were keeping him alive against his will and he kept begging. They died but they kept doing more tests and wanted to do more experiments and that's not what happened. This case also has a lot of strange misinformation, like for example, there is a photo of a guy lying on a bed with his arms and legs up, who has burns all over him and anywhere you google, they say that yeah, that's a photo of Hisashi Uchi, uh, not that that's a picture from a medical textbook on burn treatments, uh, someone, a news reporter, probably or someone online.

He said it was Hisashi and everyone else just ran with him. I was like, yeah, it's a photo of the irradiated man, but it's not, he's just a burn victim, um, and I think it's because people strangely want to sensationalize this story, but they don't. I don't need it Beyond, you know what it is, it's already such a tragic story, but they turn it into something like: ah, here's the picture of his broken body and the doctors kept doing experiments and it's strange, but the tone that I got from every doctor from every The interview was this constant struggle of the weak knowing that they need to do their job.

They assured Hisashi that they will keep him alive as long as they can. They will assure the family that they will keep them alive as long as they can. and then see the state he's in and wonder if they're trying to play God and besides, at the end of the day, these doctors weren't doing anything beyond the standard because, like radiation victims, you simply have to do it. survive the symptoms and then your body will come out of them and no matter how drastic the symptoms may have been, it would be better for the doctors to say: well, you are having too many blood transfusions or your body seems too damaged in this area, we should leave you . some of the nurses thought to themselves that yes, maybe we should let him die, maybe that would be best, but regardless of this, the doctors doubled down and said that our job is to keep them alive because as horrible as they may be these symptoms, As long as there is a small chance of saving him, as long as the walls of his intestines can grow back as we have seen evidence and some of his skin can grow back, then it is worth the time for most people. doctors who live in the hospital it is worth having several two-hour meetings a day and then going to your family and explaining what happened it is worth three hours of dressing changes it is worth some of the resident doctors who were there having to write two eight page reports a day to present To all the doctors, it is worth the countless hours to save your life if there is a chance and obviously I can't speak for Hisashi, but I know that with the last words he said before being intubated when he saw his family and they told him to stay strong for them and he saw his wife and son and he just gritted his teeth and showed it.

I like to think that was his response because a lot of people say, well, Hisashi couldn't speak, maybe he wanted to die, maybe he wanted to move on and yes, with the experience of painting, I wouldn't blame him if at some point he did, but I like to think that right before he was intubated and accepted, he agreed to move on for his family and told his wife that he loved her. I like to think that was his response, that even if there was a chance that he could still be alive for them, he would suffer and if I were in that position, if I decided I was willing to endure it.

Whatever the pain or cost to my family of staying alive, then I would hope to have a team of doctors as adamant and loyal as Hisashi did, and besides, everything you read about this is like the evil doctors who kept a man. He lived and I wouldn't let him die. Do people see this story of a guy who spent 83 days and a whole team of doctors and then fought the illness that afflicted him? They're not interesting enough, but if The Doctors were evil if we turn the doctors into these comic book villains, that's a story and during this time the doctors were trying to do everything they could to relieve the pain he was having with a mixture of propofol fentanyl and ketamine hydrochloride at the doses he was taking.

It was about the same as someone who would be awake during open brain surgery, and despite the strength of that, they probably started to lose their effectiveness as more and more painkillers were introduced over the next few days, but Again, the only thing he can do is treat the symptoms and hope he recovers, also with this enormous amount of medications constantly pumping through his system, his heart was having a difficult time getting circulation to his extremities, so he kept a heart rate of about 120 since October. Henceforth, sure enough, this guy's heart was constantly running a marathon without interruption for more than a month as they maintained their condition mission on November 27, which was the 59th day since the exposure on November 27 at 701 AM. m.

Makawa was walking down the hallway and looked inside. In Hisashi's room and I saw that his blood pressure was 40 over 30. For those who don't know, a healthy blood pressure is 80 over 120, which meant Hisashi's heart was about to fail. Makawa rushed into the room, called the code, and received a bunch of Hisashi was hooked up to dozens of different devices that were constantly monitoring his heart rate and alerting the entire hospital if he had a heart attack or if his system shut down or something. So. That, but about an hour before, they had removed much of the equipment to do X-rays and while the current technicians were in the hallway looking at the .

None of the doctors would have been around to restart him and if it hadn't been for Mykawa just walking by, no one would have noticed or at least they wouldn't have noticed before it was too late when they ran into the room he was in. He was not breathing and had no heartbeat so they again started CPR and gave him epinephrine so his heart initially stopped at 7:01 am at 7:10 his heart starts again at 7:25 it stops again at 7:34 it starts again at 7:50 it stops again and finally at 8 14 it starts and maintains a blood pressure of 125 over 86 and 164 beats per minute in total hisachi died three times and his heart stopped for atotal of 49 minutes, which would normally cause undeniable massive brain damage. but because Hisashi was still hooked up to so many pumps that were effectively helping his heart circulate blood through a system for him, they thought there was enough blood left in his brain to not only cause him brain death, they ran tests to confirm it. , but It seems that while in a normal person 49 minutes without a heartbeat would kill you, in Hisashi it seemed that it wouldn't, although he almost definitely suffered significant brain damage, hopefully he experienced enough brain damage that he wasn't conscious for much of the pain. that continued because one of the things that happened immediately after his heart stopped was that his kidney completely stopped, so they had to hook him up to a dialysis machine that ran 24/7. week, as his new kidneys, his blood tests also showed that he was about to undergo liver surgery.

Macawa also gave the information to Hisashi's family, who remember that he still lives in the waiting room on the first floor and after telling them everything that happened, they said that even if his heart stopped, it would start again, he will get better during this time. His family would visit Hisashi and tell him to hang in there and that he's being so strong that everyone is proud of him, perhaps to support the idea that he didn't suffer much after that series of heart attacks, while his brain showed that there was still he was active he was no longer responding to stimuli he was no longer holding his hands or moving his eyes or nodding or anything like that he seemed to be completely vegetative which leads to two options: one, he was effectively dead at that moment and did not feel anything that would be, since You know, the much kinder option, the other option is that now, on top of all the pain and suffering, he can't move at all, some of the nurses said that every once in a while there would be like the twitching of an eyebrow or the slightest dye on a finger or toe, but they couldn't be sure if that was simply an involuntary action or if it was him still there.

Also, it seemed at this point that his heart was completely controlled by the magical location because every time they tried to take him off the medication to see how he was doing, his heart would immediately start building up blood pressure and they would have to turn it back up, so there is the possibility that his body was indeed dead, but the vasopressors and other drugs they were using to maintain the pressure on his heart only caused the chemical reactions to continue occurring or again the horrible alternative that he was aware of all this on December 1st After 63 days, another problem occurs when it is discovered that he has hemophagocytosis, this is a condition where macrophages in the blood, part of his immune system, begin to eat his blood, so this required him to receive a complete plasma transfusion, which he typically did in plasma transfusions, the maximum you will see is eight eight units of plasma had to be done 75 a complete plasma replacement that took three days to perform on December 7 at 3 pm shortly after transfusion his body went into shock again where they gave him more epinephrine to come out again at the same time his white blood cell count went back down to a thousand, it was ten thousand, so most of the good that was achieved with the original stem cell transfusion had been undone and at this point he was completely automated from the need for new blood to new immunities in his blood. to blood transfusions and his lungs and his heart and his blood flow and every aspect of his body was automated to some degree, even his kidneys were now a box that was across the room from him, so Mekawa, who has completely depended on him all this time. keep this man alive because there is a chance that he will get better after seeing the evidence that his heart is just a box that the drugs are still working and after seeing that every aspect of his body that still works is trying to kill the rest. like hemophagocytosis and needs replaced by something else and they keep changing skin, blood and bandages, that he is effectively just a robot, a puppet that they keep passing more strings through and on December 19 at 11:30 p.m. m., 81 days in Makawa they concluded that they should do no more, he goes to the family and takes them to an office that has all of Hisashi's vital signs, statistics and graphs and everything laid out on computer screens and it takes them hours explaining in detail why everything. is happening while this drug affects this and this pressure affects this to help them fully understand exactly where they are to understand that at this point Hisashi is not Hisashi, he is a body controlled by other things and concludes and says next time. that his heart stops, we shouldn't try to start over and after hearing all this, the family just responds, we understand that there is a lot of malice around the family in this story and every time you read reports about it, they are always So. evil doctors and the selfish family that's the tone they all have like oh his family said we don't care if he won't make it uh keep torturing him it's like the way again people I keep saying weird people YouTube channels and content Farm media communication, okay, that's what I mean by people, um, but it's because they always want everything to be so two-dimensional that they don't want to talk about Nuance or you know, the terror of whether I keep a family member alive or not, but above. up to this point it has never been impossible for him to live, at some point the radiation symptoms would stop and he would be able to live and could you imagine how different this story would be if he lived if this guy went through 20 sieverts of exposure and the life came out of it On the other side and despite all these transfusions and monsters, she managed to raise her son like no one told her, oh why did you keep him alive?

So it's just because it didn't work that they Feel this way and keep in mind that this has never happened before someone was never exposed to that much and kept living maybe because they kept living something in their body was strong enough something could overcome it , could be a breakthrough in radiation exposure for eons to come. but it's because he didn't live that everyone points the finger at the medical team they call them monsters they call the family selfish but all this time it was just a family a wife who wanted to keep her husband alive, a son who wanted to see his father, that was it and I hate a lot of the shades that are put around him because it's like he's begging for death but his family won't let him go.

I would just go to his bed and tell him to stay strong to keep fighting because you know, if there was a chance that someone you love could live, wouldn't you want him to keep pushing and again maybe somewhere in his broken state of being he? decided he wanted to go again, I wouldn't blame him, but man, the family isn't bad for wanting to save him and the doctors aren't bad for trying to do it and it's really heartbreaking that the story is seen that way because overall In the end, it was a tragedy that this had to be experienced.

This all happened in the first place and I think a lot of the malice people attribute to the family has disappeared in the simple lines they said to Mekawa when they said we understand you. You have done everything you can, you have done everything you can to say Hisashi and now you are telling us that you should not try to save him again and we will receive him the next day, the 82nd day, December 20th. The family came in to actually say their last goodbye or in case something happens it is their last goodbye. They had not seen his face since the doctors had put bandages on them so the nurses decided that they were going to remove the bandages and put T-Gauze on.

Rex, which is much thinner so you can see the outline of her face, you know, at this point, you worry a lot, you know, infections or whatever comes up isn't that important, so they clean them up as much as they can. to see his family and every time the family enters the room and sees his face, many of them start to cry, at least many of them and, except for his wife, who still maintains her strength, they begin to thank the staff saying it looks great. He cleaned it and they were grateful that they put the lower gauze on him to be able to outline his face because they knew they didn't have to do that but they appreciated the gesture also during this time his poor blood circulation stopped the anti-fungal that he was taking while working and he had developed a fungus or a fungus began to develop on it known as aspergillus that feeds on fluids excreted from the body, so in the mixture of all this charred looking flesh and blood it had this whitish gray color. mold that started growing around his torso and at that point they just kept increasing the dosage of the drugs that kept his body going and at that point he was already taking like an elephant the dosage of epinephrine and other drugs just to keep it going, I mean, just to maintain it. his heart is beating, so on December 21, day 83, they decided to stop increasing the dose at 9:35 p.m. m., his vital signs begin to slowly decline and then, around 10:30 p.m. m., suddenly stops, the doctors give him a quick shot of epinephrine to see if that's all it takes to keep his heart going for a little longer and when that doesn't work they ordered the nurses to go to look for his family, at the request of the doctors and the family they decided not to resuscitate him and finally at 11:21 p.m. in December.

On the 21st of 1999, Hisashi Uchi, 35, was pronounced dead. They then began the process of removing all the machines, equipment and bandages he had on and one of the nurses, Nurse Shabita, who was there for most of the treatment, began. cry after watching it because every single thing that had happened to him was shown on his body, the places where the tape had been and these boils had burst and these spots on his body where he was bruised from, you know, the laid equipment. In him it's like his body tells a story and in an interview she gave about her time with him she said the phrase his body was the crystallization of his perseverance, which is a beautiful way to see it at the same time after it had been done. removed everything.

Out of it, the wife wanted to come see him now you know none of the equipment was on and she walks into the room and sees her husband dead and all the things that had been done to him, all his battle wounds and for the first time Every time she cries, she collapses on the floor and cries because now she no longer has to be strong for him, now she can finally leave him there in front of her husband, for the first time, uncovered with all the devices that were in front of him and uh, yes, yes, that night they did an autopsy and the medical examiner started at 403 am, the front of his body was completely red and black, it looked like someone had severe burns on the front of his body. but the back at least in appearance was fine again the part of his body that was facing the reaction was the one that was most damaged when they opened it the site was incredible his intestines had expanded into what looked like these giant balloon shaped animals .

The intestines were so swollen and sensitive from everything that was happening that it seems that the bleeding was just stretching in them when they began to grow and inflate in his stomach there were 2.04 kilograms of blood and in the intestine 2.68 kilograms of blood each mucous membrane. In his body it was destroyed from his intestines, throat and nose as I mentioned before, but also his lungs and trachea simply disappeared. The original stem cells that were donated by her sister could not be recovered in her bone marrow, indicating that perhaps. his body completely eradicated the transplant, which would also explain why his blood, white blood cell count shot so low near the end, one of the most incredible injuries that happened was his muscle fibers, where he would normally have muscle fibers with the cell membrane and the fibers in them, which you know, are muzzles, instead the fibers completely disappeared, they dissolved and passed through a system and all that was left was the cell membrane.

This guy's muscles dissolved while he was still alive in a way that's normally only seen in decomposition, but that's easily the most notable part of this whole autopsy. Note that his body is rotten and every system of his body is destroyed. It's burned everywhere. It's like an impossible amount of damage in the middle of everything. The heart was completely fine, sure there were elements of stress from the amount it was pumping, but there was no visible burn damage or anything permanent to his heart tissue. This baffled the medical examiner and everyone watching. The only theories are perhaps the brew. of the medications they gave him combined with you know that the radiation damage created a loophole in medicine that his heart tissue was kept under control, but to this day no one has any idea how his heart managed to staythere to remain in his condition and the medical examiner made the comment that he likes to think that it was solely Hisashi's will to live, however symbolic the idea is that the heart managed to endure everything but despite everything his heart managed to afterwards four and a half hours The autopsy concluded at 8:37 a.m. m., the official cause of death was ruled as organ dysfunction due to radiation exposure, and at 9:45 a.m. m., Hisashi was buried by his family shortly after Asashi's wife visited the hospital and thanked all the nurses and doctors for the care they gave her husband now, if you remember, there was another guy or two who were there exposed to radiation at the same time.

Hisashi was, for example, the boss who only experienced three sieverts, which again is much more than anyone should. but the boss who only experienced three turned out to be fine, he suffered from radiation sickness and had some mild symptoms and burning, but his was a more typical case, they managed to overcome it and he survived the guy who was serving the bucket of masato. Shinohara wasn't so lucky, he was exposed to about half of Hisashi's radiation, which is still much more than a lethal dose. What makes Hisashi so remarkable is that no one had ever been exposed to that amount of radiation and then lived that long. but there were people who were exposed to the amount of radiation that masado experienced, masato entered makawa's care on april 10, 2000.

The main difference between Hisashi and masato's time in the hospital is that with masato most of the treatments. they worked at least for much longer than on Hisashi, like 10 days on masato, they had a similar stem cell transplant and it seemed to work well, they got their immune system back when their skin started burning and started leaking, they were able to graft skin from the rest from his body because his chromosomes were not as damaged as Hisachis was, however, two months before being transferred to Mekawa he had developed blood in his stool, which again is a common cause of death with radiation exposure and also in March because remember.

His immune system, although better than Hisachi's, is still compromised, he contracted an MRSA infection which caused pneumonia. He was transferred to Mekawa's care 194 days after exposure. He was put on dialysis because his kidneys were failing and his lungs and liver had significant damage. His death. It was much slower and less intense than the hisologies. He finally died at 7:25 am on April 27, 211 after exposure at the age of 40. When they went to do the autopsy, his skin had hardened to where they described it as an armor covering his body, his death was more typical of radiation exposure, it was not the immediate pain and burning everywhere like Hisashi's and he maintained awareness of it for most of his time in the hospital.

Six of the JCO bosses were arrested, including the boss who was in the room with the two men at the critical moment. They were all sentenced to two or three years in prison. All their defenses were that they didn't understand how dangerous this was because again, this wasn't a nuclear facility, this was a place. where they make actual materials for the nuclear facility, so a lot of them claimed that they just thought they were like any other chemical like, yeah, don't breathe it or touch it, but you're fine if you're around it and None of them thought that possible and I don't know about the other five, but I do believe the boss who was in the room because when that guy says he didn't think that could happen, he was right next to the dumpster every time it happened. went nuclear uh so I'll take their word for it, the accident seems to be caused by arrogance across the board, safety guidelines were not followed, people didn't understand what they were handling and overall it led to the horrible death of two people who were not responsible in 2001, the doctor had Cabo retire and publish good practice guidelines for radiation emergency medicine, which were the first comprehensive guidelines in Japan on how medical teams should meet and deal with radiation damage on June 6.

In 2005, the JCO plant where the accident occurred was demolished despite six years having passed since that day. The tank was still radioactive when they came to dismantle it. In fact, the tank can now be seen in a nuclear history museum in Japan and in that hospital. waiting To this day, the paper cranes that were made by Hisashi's family are still there, in total there are about ten thousand. One of the nurses who was talking about the case said she couldn't bear to take him down because they had too many. prayers attached to it and it seems that those prayers pushed the impossible radioactive man to survive longer and with a better heart than anyone else and with that we have the end of the story of the most painful death ever experienced by many people. talk about the story, at least on YouTube online, as if it's almost a horror story about, you know, evil doctors and an evil family who caused this guy to suffer and like, while obviously the details of the injuries he happened are horrible.

I do not see it. since nothing I have read, no interview has indicated any of that to me, they were good doctors who wondered if they were sure, but they were determined to keep this man alive if there was a chance of Slimmer and a family that was willing to support him. Whatever the doctors and Hisashi thought was best, there was no malice here; At worst, perhaps a family who didn't understand the extent of the injuries but it was a crime, or doctors who were willing to go to great lengths to honor the last wishes they had heard. of him and the current wishes of the family and I don't think that's wrong either, it was just a tragic situation all around and it's a story that I think deserves to be told and if you stayed that long, hopefully, you enjoyed it, no It's like that. the right word appreciate no don't appreciate I stood to hear it and I appreciate it because I wanted to talk about it and I'm glad you're here and I'm glad you're still watching and I just want to say thank you for Watching this case is again, it's similar to toxic, uh or not, what was it?

Yes, it's called The Toxic Woman. The video I covered a couple of times was posted as a woman who had this strange toxic reaction and everyone online is covering that story. a supernatural tale and then they treat this story as a malicious story like uh all of these like I read some stories that were completely unfounded or they said and it seems like the government was paying doctors to try all these experimental procedures but none of that happened, I just guess people want it to be terrifying, rather than tragic, which it is, and I wanted to shed some light on it and also talk about a lot of the crazy medical details of the case that I don't think I covered as much.

Enough, so anyway I've talked enough. If you watch this for too long, I hope you agree that these details are worth talking about, and thank you for being here. One thing I do want to mention. At the time I make these videos, I read books or you know, magazine articles or whatever that have a lot of information in them, like this date happened or this was the diagnosis, uh, but for this video, the main source that I used, which seems to have used a lot of other sources, or a lot of other articles that came later, was a book that was published in the early 2000s called slow. death 83 days of radiation sickness which was written by one of the reporters who showed up at the JCO plant the day the incident occurred and spent years going to all the doctors, nurses and family members to get an exact timeline of what happened and all the information he collected was first hand and the reason I mention it is because instead of a lot of stories with a lot of data, he really did a great job.

I will put the author's name here. I forgot about it right now. great job crafting a narrative out of scientific and analytical pieces and I thought it was a great read so if you are interested in this story I recommend you read that book, however I will warn you that reading it is biased uh. So what I was about to say earlier, I mean, preferably, one of the angles that a lot of people take with this story is an anti-nuclear energy narrative, I mean, as you can imagine, as people who don't like nuclear energy and So I see incidents like this happen.

Obviously I use it as an example of why there shouldn't be nuclear power, but at the same time I swear I'm not getting political, but I'm not qualified, but at the same time I'm not. I don't see the problem being nuclear energy as much as it is greed and stupidity. You know, corporations want to take shortcuts and then risk workers' lives to do it, like that's where the problem comes from and you could say you know that's the problem. Same thing because how could nuclear energy exist without corporate greed and all that? I feel like that's addressing a symptom rather than a problem, but anyway, just know that if you decide to read the book where there's a lot of that inserted, there's a lot of like hypothetical quotes about how nuclear energy is bad, there's a lot of quotes from people from World War II talking about how nuclear weapons are bad and all that, and just if you dig into it, you understand that there are some biases, but the story and the narrative itself is very well structured and again it is the base I used for this video, so watch that book again normally.

I don't recommend books unless they're fictional and that's what the video is about, but here if I'm interested, check it out, so I think you should do that for now. New content on the way. I hope you enjoyed. I'm going to start editing it and hope everyone can see it soon. Well, if you are. I'm already watching it you've already seen it I'm tired anyway thank you all for being here I appreciate it too just before we leave thanks again to aromabird for sponsoring this video check out the link in my description and use the code windagoon 55 to get 55 off your first month, so that should be enough for now, but I just want to thank you for watching.

I hope you enjoyed it and I'll see you in the next one.