I’ve heard of iPhones doing the most awesome things, but never saving a mans life.  Heck, it took me across the country and back, visiting weird things along the way.  I no longer believe in maps, I believe in iPhone!

Anyway, back to the story.

Sitting with his wife, Christina, in Miami’s Jackson Memorial Hospital, Dan Woolley showed the notebook to TODAY’s Meredith Vieira via satellite hookup Tuesday. Trapped for 65 hours under tons of wreckage in the lobby of his hotel by Haiti’s Jan. 12 earthquake and knowing he could die, Woolley had written notes to his two young boys and his wife.

I’m pretty sure I’d be too busy screaming and wasting precious oxygen to write any notes.  However, the next time I’m stuck in an elevator shaft after a horrendous earthquake, I’ll be sure to keep this man’s story in mind.

Woolley had taken refuge in an elevator shaft, where he used an iPhone first-aid app to treat a compound fracture of his leg and a cut on his head. He had already used his digital SLR camera’s focusing light to illuminate his surroundings, and taken pictures of the wreckage to help find a safe place to wait to be rescued — or to die.

Ok, looking up that app now.

And thanks to the iPhone first-aid app he’d downloaded, he knew how to fashion a bandage and tourniquet for his leg and to stop the bleeding from his head wound. The app also warned him not to fall asleep if he felt he was going into shock, so he set his cell phone’s alarm clock to go off every 20 minutes.

And then for 65 hours, he waited for whatever fate had in store for him.

Woolley attributes his survival and rescue by a French rescue team to divine providence.

FRENCH RESCUE TEAM???!!!!  That’s crap!!!  It was the iPhone gods that saved him!!!!  Everyone know’s the truth!!!

link via TheDailyWhat

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