MIAMI, FL – According to BBC reports; a U.S.
teenager is improving after he was inadvertently hit with a spear gun by a
friend during a Florida fishing trip this month.
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| Yasser Lopez: Miami boy survived miraculously with spear in brain |
The doctors at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami
regarded the recovery of the 16-year-old Yasser Lopez as ‘Miracle’. The
outcomes could have been much worse, doctors said, but still they didn’t know
the extent of the damage to his memory and other parts of the brain.
According to hospital sources; the 3ft (90cm)
projectile entered into the brain of Lopez over his right eye and went out the
back of his head; but after a 3-hour long surgery he is out of danger and
already started talking.
Although he has no memory of the weird accident;
but he was in his senses when he reached at the hospital. After providing him the
anesthesia, part of the stainless steel spike had to be cut off with a
mechanical cutter so that Lopez could fit into the CT scanner, doctors said.
Lopez was lucky in the sense that spear’s path was
into the right side of the brain, a non-dominant lobe, missing the parts
responsible for speech and other important functions.
"It's a miracle the spear missed all the
main blood vessels of the brain," neurosurgeon Ross Bullock told
reporters.
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