Boy Survives After A Meat Skewer Pierces His Head

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Some miracles often challenge our understanding of medical science, but, every so often such stories emerge from the rubble. Here’s the story of a 10 year old boy who survived against an incredible odd.

Xavier Cunningham, a 10 year-old boy from the city of Missouri, was playing in a treehouse when a wasp attacked him. What happened with Xavier after he was attacked by the wasp is a scene straight out of a horror movie! In panic, the boy fell off the treehouse ladder and onto a rotisserie skewer that was placed on the ground by his friends.

The boy was immediately rushed to the hospital, where the doctors prepped for hours before surgically removing the skewer. Scans of the boy’s head showed that the skewer had pierced through his face and was passing just underneath the skull. What’s more, according to the director of Endovascular Neurology at the University of Kansas Health System, Dr. Koji Ebersole, the skewer had gone all the way to the back of his neck.

Although, it was a miracle that the skewer missed hitting any critical blood vessels, including the carotid and vertebral artery. According to Ebersole, “If this was a millimeter closer [to those vessels], it probably would have been an unsurvivable injury”.

In addition to this, the skewer also missed other critical structures including, major nerves, the brain and the brain stem. The skewer trajectory was “one in a million”. “How this thing could pass so deep through that part of the body and not hit something critical; I don’t know how the kid could be so lucky,” Ebersole said.

Luckily, with careful surgery, the doctors were able to remove the skewer successfully. And Xavier was back to his usual gaming escapades just a day after the surgery with only a bandaid on his face.

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Dr. Aiman Shahab is a dentist with a bachelor’s degree from Dow University of Health Sciences. She is an experienced freelance writer with a demonstrated history of working in the health industry. Skilled in general dentistry, she is currently working as an associate dentist at a private dental clinic in Karachi, freelance content writer and as a part time science instructor with Little Medical School. She has also been an ambassador for PDC in the past from the year 2016 – 2018, and her responsibilities included acting as a representative and volunteer for PDC with an intention to make the dental community of Pakistan more connected and to work for benefiting the underprivileged. When she’s not working, you’ll either find her reading or aimlessly walking around for the sake of exploring. Her future plans include getting a master’s degree in maxillofacial and oral surgery, settled in a metropolitan city of North America.

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