Excerpt from MOON WALK by MICHAEL JACKSON * ~

"Meanwhile, I was kind of detached, despite the terrible pain. I was watching all the drama unfold. Later they told me I was in shock, but I remember enjoying the ride to the hospital because I never thought I'd ride in an ambulance with the sirens wailing. It was one of those things I had always wanted to do when I was growing up. When we got there, they told me there were news crews outside, so I asked for my glove. There's a famous shot of me waving from the stretcher with my glove on.
"Later one of the doctors told me that it was a miracle that I was alive. . .I had third-degree burns on the back of my head that almost went through to my skull, so I had a lot of problems with it, but I was very lucky."

* Michael Jackson (Aug. 29, 1958 - June 25, 2009) pg. 237 William Heinemann, London 1988

(note: Doctor from Grenada is currently in a Los Angeles court, charged with involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson.)