Mary Ann Cooper

But I work with the Lightning Strike and Electric Shock Survivors Group.

So I've heard many, many stories over the years.

With email, I have emails from people all over the world and phone calls from people all over the world for the last 30, 40 years telling me what they have afterwards.

I may not be able to take care of the lightning injuries

and do much after they have one.

But I can work in prevention, which is what I do.

I work at trying to prevent the lightning injuries.

But I can also characterize what happens because I did the first study back in 1980.

You know, my question as an emergency doc

was if somebody comes in to me hit by lightning, what am I going to tell this guy's parents?

Is he going to live?

Is he going to die?

What kind of complications is he going to have?

Are they going to be permanent?

How do you take care of them?

Those kinds of things.

So I did the first study that really looked at

more than one or two people at a time.

Lots of docs had reported, I had this case on Tuesday, and this is what the guy had.

But nobody looked at a population of 60, 80, 100 patients and said, how many have seizures?