Human bodies are both shockingly resilient and fragile as fuck at the same time. With enough adrenaline we can run on broken ankles. It will hurt to high heaven later on but it may just be enough of a temporary gain to GTFO from something bad.
A lot of body parts are sufficiently unimportant that damage to them is overall a minimal problem. Sure you might end up with no hands/arms/feet/legs but being quadriplegic isn't fatal, it just sucks, and that's why there are worse things than death.
Being pregnant may have actually saved her depending where the stabs were and as per the article they were near the baby so her very likely very enlarged abdomen which was mostly filled with amniotic fluid and a small 8 month developed baby would have presented itself as a very easy target that for the most part wasn't immediately containing vital organs. Because of that the baby was probably more lucky as it would have been significantly more at risk when consider body areas/volumes and important structures.
Conversely the guy behind the Atkin's diet, Dr Robert Atkins MD [Cardiology specialty]:
On April 8, 2003, Atkins fell and hit his head on an icy New York sidewalk. He was admitted to Weill Cornell Medical Center, where he underwent surgery to remove a blood clot from his brain, but fell into a coma. He died on April 17, at age 72.
Sure he was old[er] but his death was neither a result of his age nor his dietary suggestions despite some attempts which will be made to claim such. Anyone can slip on ice and hit their head the wrong way and it highlights that some parts of the body just can't take a hit.
A well place and timed punch to the solar plexus can interrupt the heart leading to death.
A properly executed chokehold will drop pretty much anyone within 3-5 seconds because it shuts off blood to the brain. Won't matter how built someone is and sometimes that leads to other problems/injuries out of some false expectation you can power through something.
Once knew a guy doing Ju-Jitsu who was a club doorman/bouncer. Big fucking dude, the kind that had a physical presence going for him that would deal with most problems before they ended up physical however for those times it did happen he still put the time in to learn what could be done to avoid injuring himself, and to a lesser extent the morons trying to attack him while drunk.
Anywho, takes part in a demonstration, gets put in an armlock by the guy giving the class. Big dude is locked down and cannot get out but still voices he thinks he can because of his muscle. Gets told it won't happen and if he reeeally thinks he can get out then to try but only after being warned several times it's a REEEALLY bad idea.
Ends up tearing his own muscles because the armlock was never, ever going to be what gave way which meant the only thing that could was the locked body. Didn't see him for a few months after that unsurprisingly and when he came back he was far more humble about trying similar things.
I know just a bit of dark humour on my part, I have seen WAY too many clips where it looks like a knife graced a guy to have him lying in a pool of his own blood seconds later.
Definitely, clip the femoral or carotid arteries or even the jugular veins and you can and will bleed out within a few minutes without immediately medical aid. Something regardless.
So both her and the baby (though with brain damage) survived
How tough are they both or how shit was he at stabbing?
Human bodies are both shockingly resilient and fragile as fuck at the same time. With enough adrenaline we can run on broken ankles. It will hurt to high heaven later on but it may just be enough of a temporary gain to GTFO from something bad.
A lot of body parts are sufficiently unimportant that damage to them is overall a minimal problem. Sure you might end up with no hands/arms/feet/legs but being quadriplegic isn't fatal, it just sucks, and that's why there are worse things than death. Being pregnant may have actually saved her depending where the stabs were and as per the article they were near the baby so her very likely very enlarged abdomen which was mostly filled with amniotic fluid and a small 8 month developed baby would have presented itself as a very easy target that for the most part wasn't immediately containing vital organs. Because of that the baby was probably more lucky as it would have been significantly more at risk when consider body areas/volumes and important structures.
Conversely the guy behind the Atkin's diet, Dr Robert Atkins MD [Cardiology specialty]:
Sure he was old[er] but his death was neither a result of his age nor his dietary suggestions despite some attempts which will be made to claim such. Anyone can slip on ice and hit their head the wrong way and it highlights that some parts of the body just can't take a hit.
A well place and timed punch to the solar plexus can interrupt the heart leading to death.
A properly executed chokehold will drop pretty much anyone within 3-5 seconds because it shuts off blood to the brain. Won't matter how built someone is and sometimes that leads to other problems/injuries out of some false expectation you can power through something.
Once knew a guy doing Ju-Jitsu who was a club doorman/bouncer. Big fucking dude, the kind that had a physical presence going for him that would deal with most problems before they ended up physical however for those times it did happen he still put the time in to learn what could be done to avoid injuring himself, and to a lesser extent the morons trying to attack him while drunk. Anywho, takes part in a demonstration, gets put in an armlock by the guy giving the class. Big dude is locked down and cannot get out but still voices he thinks he can because of his muscle. Gets told it won't happen and if he reeeally thinks he can get out then to try but only after being warned several times it's a REEEALLY bad idea.
Ends up tearing his own muscles because the armlock was never, ever going to be what gave way which meant the only thing that could was the locked body. Didn't see him for a few months after that unsurprisingly and when he came back he was far more humble about trying similar things.
I know just a bit of dark humour on my part, I have seen WAY too many clips where it looks like a knife graced a guy to have him lying in a pool of his own blood seconds later.
Definitely, clip the femoral or carotid arteries or even the jugular veins and you can and will bleed out within a few minutes without immediately medical aid. Something regardless.