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** There is an actual photo of Byers without his jaws circulating as creepypasta on the internet, known as the [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Man with no jaws]].
** Not to mention, Byers' fate isn't even unique. Probably ''thousands'' of workers who painted the radioactive paint onto the radium dials in the 1920s, known as the "radium girls" (since most of them were female), suffered similar consequences, known as the "radium jaw". And even before the discovery of radioactivity, a condition known as the [[Fluffy the Terrible|"phossy jaw"]], caused by white phosphorus, was fairly common among workers in the matchstick industry.
* [https://www.nature.com/articles/3101975 This] article describes a case report of a young man surviving atlanto-occipital dislocation with complete transection of the medulla oblongata (the lowest part of the brainstem). Thanks to immediate resuscitation and subsequent mechanical ventilation, he made it alive to the ICU, where neurogenic shock, bleeding and secondary infections were treated. It was then determined that he was completely tetraplegic with loss of function of all nerves starting from CN IX, could not breathe by himself, but was ''aware'' without gross cognitive deficits. A special tube was implanted for feeding (he could not swallow), and after surviving about a dozen of life-threatening situations, the patient
** It is not known for how much longer the patient survived, but as his brain was completely disconnected from his internal organs (which does not happen to that extent in Locked-in syndrome, or even in high spinal cord injury because at least the vagus nerve will be preserved), the potential for complications is certainly huge.
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