Happens when the ligaments and/or bony structures that link the skull to the spine are injured. King, who is now 35, told the Daily Mail, “I flew my chair back.
To keep gravity from decapitating me.” My neurosurgeon had to use his hands to keep my head in place. I was unable to endure. My right side started trembling violently.
Ninety percent of AOD cases end in quick death, making it usually lethal. To reattach King’s skull and spine, however,
Physicians managed to get her into emergency surgery and execute a spinal fusion. The bones heal as one because they are bonded together.
According to the publication, she remembered, “It was a horror show.” “I couldn’t move my head at all when I woke up.”
