A British woman is lucky to be alive after she was nearly taken out by a big yawn.
36-year-old Hayley Black had just woken up to feed her baby when she saw her daughter yawn and instinctively did the same. But that's when she felt what she described as an "electric shock" shoot through her body. Her arm froze mid-air, and she knew something was seriously wrong. Her husband quickly called for an ambulance, and she was rushed to the hospital.
Doctors were baffled at first. Scans didn’t show much, until they looked at her neck. That’s when they discovered that two bones in her spine had shot forward into her spinal cord -- all from the force of a yawn. She was essentially paralyzed. Thankfully, emergency surgery saved her life. But the ordeal left her with permanent nerve damage, a scar on her throat, and six months in a wheelchair. Even today, Hayley says she can’t yawn without fear. (Oddity Central)