Sometimes, the miracles, that we can only see in the movies, happens to be true. Such miracle has happened to a 10-year-old Missouri boy who survived after a foot-long meat skewer impaled through his head during a freak accident over the weekend.
Doctors said that the spike which went through Xavier Cunningham's head astonishingly missed his eyes, brain, major blood vessels, and spinal cord. The Kansas University Hospital told the local media that he is expected to recover soon, however, they also said his voice might get affected.
The accident occurred on Saturday, 8th September in his home in Harrisonville, Missouri. People reported that Cunningham was attacked by a hive of wasps while playing in a tree house. When he was fleeing the wasps, his foot slept and fell off the tree house onto the inconveniently placed skewer outside his home.
The bar went entirely through his head, with several inches still sticking out of his face, when his mother, Gabrielle Miller found him screaming on the ground. "I'm dying, mom," the boy screamed on his way to the hospital. Miller said,
I heard screaming, and I went running down the stairs. he came in and he had this thing just sticking out.
Doctor Koji Ebersole, endovascular neurosurgery director at University of Kansas Hospital, told a media outlet:
You couldn't draw it up any better. It was one in a million for it to pa s s five or six inches through the front of the face to the back and not have hit these things.
The doctor continued,
I have not seen anything pa s sed to that depth in a situation that was survivable, let alone one where we think the recovery will be near complete if not complete.
The doctors removed the skewer from the boy's skull through surgery at a perfectly straight angle, ensuring the square, sharp edges didn't make any more serious damage to the surrounding area.
The boy's family have started a GoFundMe page to help pay for his medical costs, where they have dubbed Cunningham as the "Missouri Miracle."
