Even today treatment focuses on stabilizing the patient to prevent damage from spreading, with surgery to decompress the spine and steroids to prevent inflammation and protect remaining neurons.
When the Australian government tried to translate its tax rules into plain English it discovered that five lines of code could decompress into as many as five pages of comprehensible prose.
I'll now take some time to decompress (FYI I'm looking for a good fat camp to lose my Groupon 40, if anyone has a suggestion), and then maybe I'll figure out how to channel this experience into something productive.
If you asked my wife, she would say "yes" because for awhile, during that minute or so after the pop, she thought that the explosion and fire might cause a hole in the side of the plane that would decompress it.