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Home from Iraq at Fort Bragg is military police sergeant Dan Powers. He told ABC's Bob Woodruff the story of an injury that now prevents him from raising his right eyebrow: "So I am kind of like Mr Spock."
The incident happened on a Baghdad street last July. A teenager crept up behind Powers with a nine-inch knife and plunged it deep into his brain. Powers could not feel anything. He arrived at the hospital with the blade sticking out of his head but "amazingly" both conscious and alert. Col Richard Teff, the neurosurgeon, "had a choice," Woodruff narrated, "clamp an artery and risk a stroke--or pull the knife straight out and hope for the best." Teff did the latter but as it exited the blade nicked an artery and blood, two liters in all, came streaming out. Powers lost 40% of the blood in his body before he recovered with speech, memory and coordination intact--except for that single eyebrow.
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