"Freezing and alone, waiting to die," the lady pictured above was the coldest person Duluth doctors had ever returned to life.
Janice Goodger was ice-cold, and her heart was no longer beating.
The 64-year-old Duluth woman had been lying unconscious and hypothermic on an icy driveway in freezing cold for at least four hours before her horrified daughter found her...
Goodger, whose body temperature was in the 70s when she arrived in the emergency room and then dropped to an even more dangerous level of 60, was the coldest person Delp, a 13-year emergency-room veteran, or his colleagues had ever seen.
Goodger was at her daughter's home caring for her black Labrador while the family was out of town. At about 5 p.m., she went into the back yard and slipped on some ice.
Goodger, who has severe rheumatoid arthritis, couldn't get up.
Sprawled on her back, she lifted her backside and "walked like a crab" about 50 feet to her car through deep snow. By the time she reached the driveway, her clothes were soaked and her strength was gone. She couldn't pull herself up.
More of the story at the link. I like her attitude:
As for Goodger, she plans to modify her shoes. "I'm going to glue sandpaper on the bottoms so I don't slip," she said. "It worked for me when I lived in North Dakota."
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