From the "He's going to feel that one in the morning" department

I never would have thought it was possible to survive a decapitation. That is until I saw this boy named Ricky on TV. How did he survive? Well, he suffered a rare, and usually fatal, form of decapitation known as "internal decapitation." From what I can gather, this means that while his head was not detached from his body, his skull and ligaments holding the skull to his neck were. All that was left holding his head on was flesh and nerves. Surgery was needed to bolt his skull back where it needed to be. With such an injury usually comes some loss of control over one's body. But Ricky is talking the talk and walking the walk. One arm is still useless but he is determined to get it to work again.

In my search for articles about Ricky on the Web I came across a bassoonist who has survived the same injury. As of last year she, unfortunately, was unable to play her bassoon. You know, perhaps that explains a lot about me......