Banner Graphic, Volume 11, Number 103, Greencastle, Putnam County, 2 January 1981 — Page 3

'Frozen stiff' in subzero ordeal, girl is revived

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BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) Jean Hilliard was literally frozen stiff “like a piece of meat out of a deep freeze” when a friend found her in the snow after a night of 22-below zero temperatures. But the 19-year-old blonde has made a miraculous recovery. “At worst, I might lose a couple of toes,” she says. “I can’t explain why she’s alive. She was frozen stiff, literally,” Dr. George Sather, who helped treat the teen-ager, said Tuesday. “It’s a miracle.” Miss Hilliard was frozen after a midnight car accident in rural northwestern Minnesota. When she arrived at the Fosston, Minn., hospital, her skin was too hard to pierce with a hypodermic needle or to reveal a pulse. Her temperature was too low to register on a thermometer. Her face was ashen and her eyes were solid and didn’t respond to light. “The reaction didn’t appear until two or three hours after she

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started thawing out. The body was cold, completely solid, just like a piece of meat out of a deep freeze,” Sather said. Her bizarre ordeal began late Dec. 20 as she was returning to her parents’ home near Lengby, Minn. The family car skidded off the road on the edge of the White Earth Indian Reservation and stalled in the windy, frigid weather. Clad in western boots, a coat and mittens, she began walking to Wally Nelson’s home some two miles away and collapsed only 15 feet from his door. Nelson found her as walked out the door at 7 next morning “Her face was ghost-like. I figured she was dead,” he said. Her body was so stiff that Nelson loaded her “diagonally” in the back seat of his car and headed for the hospital. Wrapped in “water-type heating bags,” Miss Hilliard received oxygen and hospital staff heard “little whimpers, probably air coming out of her lungs,” Sather said. She took breaths two or three times a minute, about one-fifth the normal rate. Doctors were unable to give her intravenous

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feedings because “she was frozen too solid to penetrate the skin,” said Sather’s brother. Dr. Edgar Sather. Her pulse, hardly registering, was about 12 beats per minute. And her temperature was too low for a thermometer, with a low reading of 88 degrees, 10 degrees below normal. But in several hours, wrapped in an electric heating pad, she began to revive. “By noon, she spoke a little. By evening she was lucid.” Sanger said. Tests show her heart, kidneys, blood chemistry “are all OK.” She has patches of gray on her legs and her toes are blistered, but there is no talk of major amputation. “When I woke up. all I wanted was a glass of water,” Miss Hilliard said by telephone. “Here was my whole family. Everybody’s eyes were just big. They were saying, ‘She’s alive.’ “It’s more or less like I dreamed about it,” said Miss Hilliard, who wants to study heavy equipment operation and maintenance. “It’s really eerie when you think about it. ”

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