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'Miracle' Toddler Survives After Getting Hook Lodged in Brain
Filed under: In The News, Weird But True
A 17-month-old boy wasn't so lucky when he fell off his family's porch on July 17. He landed on a pressure washer, which embedded a metal hook in his brain, just shy of the brain's main blood vessel.
But after surviving the accident "in perfect shape," little Jessiah Jackson is being called a "miracle baby," "Good Morning America" reports.
It helped that Jackson was surrounded by so many adults trained to deal with medical emergencies. After he fell on the pressure washer, neighbor Lavern Nobels, a former volunteer firefighter, ran over to help and sawed through the metal pipe. Also, Jackson's aunt and uncle are both EMTs, so they were able to care for him before emergency workers arrived.
Jackson was airlifted to a hospital in Wilmington, and then to the children's hospital in Chapel Hill.
"The biggest complexity is that we have all these challenges in a very young baby boy, whose amount of blood volume to begin with is not as high as yours or mine," Dr. Anand Germanwala, chief of skull-based neurosurgery at North Carolina Children's Hospital, tells "Good Morning America." "So, a few drops of blood here and there make a huge difference."
Doctors are monitoring Jackson for infection, but they don't expect him to have any long-term problems.
"Everyone is calling it a miracle because he came through this," Joseph Jones, Jackson's grandfather and legal guardian, tells "Good Morning America." "And not only came through it, he's up, alert and back to his old self to where he was before the accident."
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8-25-2010 @ 11:43AM
Ruth Alan said..."Miracle Toddler"
Your story is featured today on oddtodd.com...daily good news!
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