A 10-year-old boy in the United States has made a miraculous escape after a meat skewer pierced his skull, completely missing his eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels.
Xavier Cunningham ended up in this position after he fell from a tree house at his home in Harrisonville, straight onto the meat skewer. Insects attacked him, causing him to tumble to the ground.
He was eventually transported to the University of Kansas Hospital where endovascular neurosurgery director Koji Ebersole evaluated the wound. He says it was one in a million for it to pass five or six inches through the front of the face to the back and not have hit these things.