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Toddler Survives After Pencil Impales Skull & Brain
Toddler Survives After Pencil Impales Skull & Brain
Dec 22, 2024 9:55 AM

Kids fall all the time. But the story of how a New Hampshire toddler survived after impaling herself with a pencil is amazing even doctors.

WHDH in Boston says twenty-month-old Olivia was at home coloring with a colored pencil earlier this month, when she fell, .

A view of the pencil through the toddler's skull and brain.

(WHDH Screenshot)

"I thought the pencil had broken or something. I thought there was no way that whole pencil was through her head," her mother tells WHDH.

A rescue squad took her to a hospital. She was then flown to Boston Children's Hospital, where doctors removed the object in what they described as a , yet remarkable procedure.

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"The pencil , and ended up just in front of the left ear. So it literally crossed the whole head and missed just vessel after vessel," Dr. Darren Orbach, the hospital's division chief of interventional radiology tells the New Hampshire Union Leader.

Orbach and Olivia's other doctors expect her to make a full recovery.

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