Darius Foreman was building a treehouse Saturday when he fell from a branch, knocking over a five-foot-long wooden board, which came down on top of his head, his mother Joy Ellingsworth recounted.
An X-ray from Johns Hopkins Hospital, where the boy was airlifted, shows a portion of the screw lodged right between the two halves of the brain — threatening to tear the largest channel that drains blood and other fluids from the brain. Injury to this part of the brain could have been “catastrophic,” according to his surgeon, Dr. Alan Cohen.
“He was a millimeter away from having himself bleed to death,” Cohen, chief of pediatric neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins, told CNN.
“I absolutely panicked,” Ellingsworth said. “It was very scary, one of the scariest things I’ve ever been through.”
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Pray he can live to laugh about it.
ReplyDeleteOuch!
ReplyDeleteGod sure had his hand in this!
ReplyDelete....speechless. You probably still believe the world is flat too.
DeleteDamn that's has to hurt!
ReplyDeleteNot a good way to get screwed.
ReplyDeleteMom, I have a splitting headache!!
ReplyDeleteNot sure about god, but 100% certain gravity was responsible.
ReplyDeleteHardhats when doing ANY work outside ..Im Serious ..even our kids ! God bless him !
ReplyDeleteTetanus shot and a band aid....Big deal.
ReplyDeleteWasn’t he from the Parsonsburg area?
ReplyDeleteHappened in Parsonsburg, he is from Salisbury
ReplyDeleteWhere did this happen? Someone was telling me about it the other night so it had to be local. As a matter of fact, I think it was Eric Tyler from Parsonsburg that told me. I see two commenters said it was in Parsonsburg as well.
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