A man was walking along a Maryland highway when he spotted something peculiar and acted quickly. It was 67-year-old Larry Shaddy, a veteran, who was trapped under a tree limb and struggling to get help.
Shaddy had been under that tree for a whopping 7 days. Many are calling his survival a miracle.
Time and time again, I am blown away by the resiliency people display in circumstances that could easily have brought them down. Just this week a 75-year-old grandma was trapped in her car for two days and survived only on Sprite.
“For whatever reason, the gentleman was walking off the roadway, must have slipped, fell 10 to 15 feet down this steep incline and underneath this tree. It’s incredible that someone could survive like that in that position for about a week,” said Mark Brady, Prince George’s County Fire Department.
Shaddy lived just a half a block away from the scene. The veteran was recently diagnosed with lung cancer. Unable to sleep, he began taking long walks at night.
“He could not sleep at night. Larry had gone for walks many times, so that would be the last place you’d expect him to be… in the woods,” said Imelda Clark, who runs the veteran home in which he stays.
The fact that Shaddy survived without food or water, pinned under a tree, with lung cancer no less, is pretty incredible. Rescuers say he was found right at the knick of time as temperatures were expected to increase to dangerously high levels.
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