Boy Who Was Impaled Through the Head by Meat Skewer Says Black Panther and Jesus Saved Him
SHANNON MILLER; MARVEL/DISNEY/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
JASON DUAINE HAHN
Posted on February 25, 2019 9:20PM
An 11-year-old boy says a Marvel Studios superhero and Jesus Christ played a key part in his recovery after he was impaled through his head with a meat skewer.
In September, Xavier Cunningham was playing in a treehouse outside of his home in Harrisonville, Missouri, when he was suddenly attacked by a swarm of wasps. As he tried to escape the insects, Xavier fell 4 feet from a ladder and onto a foot-long meat skewer that sliced through the front of his face and right through to the back of his skull, according to the Kansas City Star.
With the skewer inside of him, Xavier was taken to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City where doctors were shocked to find that the metal tool had missed vital parts such as the boy’s nerves or brain stem. At the time, Koji Ebersole, a director at the University of Kansas Health System, called it a “one in a million” occurrence.
“I have not seen anything passed to that depth in a situation that was survivable, let alone one where we think the recovery will be near complete if not complete,” Ebersole told the Star.
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SHANNON MILLER; MARVEL/DISNEY/KOBAL/REX/SHUTTERSTOCK
JASON DUAINE HAHN
Posted on February 25, 2019 9:20PM
An 11-year-old boy says a Marvel Studios superhero and Jesus Christ played a key part in his recovery after he was impaled through his head with a meat skewer.
In September, Xavier Cunningham was playing in a treehouse outside of his home in Harrisonville, Missouri, when he was suddenly attacked by a swarm of wasps. As he tried to escape the insects, Xavier fell 4 feet from a ladder and onto a foot-long meat skewer that sliced through the front of his face and right through to the back of his skull, according to the Kansas City Star.
With the skewer inside of him, Xavier was taken to the University of Kansas Hospital in Kansas City where doctors were shocked to find that the metal tool had missed vital parts such as the boy’s nerves or brain stem. At the time, Koji Ebersole, a director at the University of Kansas Health System, called it a “one in a million” occurrence.
“I have not seen anything passed to that depth in a situation that was survivable, let alone one where we think the recovery will be near complete if not complete,” Ebersole told the Star.
PEOPLE.com: Boy Who Was Impaled Through the Head by Meat Skewer Says Black Panther and Jesus Saved Him.
https://people.com/