HARRISONVILLE, Missouri — A 10-year-old Missouri boy is recovering after he was attacked by insects and tumbled from a tree, landing on a meat skewer that penetrated his skull from his face to the back of his head. The skewer had completely missed Xavier’s eye, brain, spinal cord and major blood vessels, The Kansas City Star reports. His skull was pierced from front-to-back with half a foot of skewer still sticking out of his face. He eventually was transferred to the University of Kansas Hospital, where endovascular neurosurgery director Koji Ebersole evaluated the wound. Doctors think Xavier could recover completely.

Source: Philippine Daily Inquirer September 13, 2018 03:33 UTC