Man struck by lightning while playing PlayStation in his living room
nypost.comwrote to his 13,900 on Instagram followers. “[There was] a loud bang and … 5 hours at the hospital confirmed that I was STRUCK BY LIGHTNING through the open window!
Never going to play cute cat games during a thunderstorm again. I’m fine, just very sore, hell of a headache and burn stripes down my arm.”Ironically, when he was struck, he was playing a game called “Stray” where you control a stray cat who is lost — in a thunderstorm. “It took about a minute to come back to my senses, I felt very, very confused,” Rowan told Metro. “I went upstairs and asked my husband for a wet towel as I didn’t know what had happened but my arm was burning.” Rowan’s shocked — no pun intended — husband Aaron immediately raced him to the hospital. “We got to the reception and Aaron said something had happened and it may have been a lightning strike and everyone turned to look at me,” Rowan said. “I was rushed through to an assessment room and they said it does look like it was a lightning strike.
Nine doctors from different departments came to look at me and I was put on a heart monitor and had some blood tests.”Rowan’s doctors believe that the lightning bounced off the water and through the window due to the ground being too hard from the heatwave the UK has been experiencing recently. “We just couldn’t really process it at the time,” Rowan said.
After a few days it started to mentally affect me, realizing that I could have died.”However, he eventually managed to remain unscathed save for a few cuts on his left arm and a small burn on his right hand.Rowan’s friends, however, have managed to find a positive spin to the whole ordeal.“My friends were very concerned, especially in the first few days, but once people realized I was OK there have.
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