In Missouri, a 10-year-old boy miraculously survived after impaling his skull on a meat skewer. His case is a miracle.
In Missouri, a state in the center of the United States, little Xavier Cunningham is probably not yet measuring his luck. At 10, he narrowly escaped death when he inadvertently impaled his skull on a meat skewer.
According to the local newspaper KCTV, it all happened as the boy was attacked by wasps while playing in a treehouse built in a tree in his garden. While trying to escape the bugs, he fell off the ladder leading to the cabin and impaled his skull on a roasting spit his friends had placed in the ground. Taken urgently to the hospital, the boy was saved at the last minute by the medical team, who spent hours preparing for the operation.
One in a million
Because at that moment, the life of young Xavier was still seriously compromised. Scans of his skull showed the pin pierced his face and lodged up to his neck, said Dr Koji Ebersole, director of endovascular neurology at the University of Kansas Health System, where Xavier was. treaty.
The wire passed very close to primordial blood vessels, notably the carotid artery and the vertebral artery. “If the pin had lodged a millimeter closer, it would probably have been an insurmountable injury, added the specialist quoted by the site Live Science. According to the doctors, the roasting spit also did not pass far from his brain, brainstem and major nerves, which could have left him paraplegic or hemiplegic. According to Dr Ebersole, Xavier had a “one in a million chance” that the path of the spindle would not reach any vital organ, nerve or artery.
Doctors were able to remove the pin from his skull
“How could this thing get so deep into that part of the body and not hit something critical? I don’t know how the kid could be so lucky,” he added. With careful surgery, doctors were able to remove the wire from his skull. Just a day after the operation, Xavier was playing Xbox games in his hospital bed and only needed a bandage on his face.
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