A 26-year-old British student was in a coma for 12 days after being burned in a gas explosion earlier this year. He claimed that his newly bought brand-name sportswear saved his life.
On April 17, Jack Marlow of Walsall, England, fell asleep in his mother’s summer house. At about 2:30 in the morning, a gas heater tank exploded and caught fire. Birmingham Post Report.
According to reports, the family saw Marlowe running out of the burning outhouse. On the way to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, he was sedated and his airway was kept open artificially, where he was in a coma.
“I don’t remember anything,” Marlowe said, with third-degree burns to his hands and burns to his face and feet.
“When I looked at the photo of me in a coma, it didn’t seem to be true,” he added.
However, the black country student remembers that he had been wearing brand new Calvin Klein sportswear worth 170 pounds (230 US dollars) at the time of the incident.
“If I hadn’t been wearing the new sportswear I bought, I wouldn’t be here now,” Marlowe said.
Marlowe transplanted a graft from his leg to replace the skin on his hands. He claimed that no other parts of his body were burned because the high-quality flame-retardant material blocked the flame. “I really burned my feet, my hands and my face-but there is no place covered by the sportswear,” he said.
“This is very lucky, because usually I always wear shorts and a vest,” he added, and then pointed out that he was wearing sportswear “because it is new”.
Marlow describes this designer sportswear as “fireproof” and made of “first-class cotton.”
“The paramedics cut my body in the ambulance and I was told it had just turned black,” he recalled. “They told my mother that I was lucky that I was wearing it.”
Marlowe continued to recover from the coma, which he described as “difficult”.
“My brain activity has not returned to normal-it may take 6 to 12 months… I am still in shock, and so is my body,” he explained, then added that he felt “very Lucky to be alive.”
Express. Jack Marlow, 26, claimed that his 230-dollar Calvin Klein sportswear saved his life in a gas explosion.
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