Tuesday, January 5, 2010

http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/china.chop.stick.kid/index.html?eref=rss_topstories&utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Fee

Li Jingchao, a 14 month old boy, was playing with chopsticks when he apparently fell and one of the chopsticks went through his nose and four centimeters of it was in his skull. His mom didn't know what had happened because she was washing the dishes and when she heard her son crying she ran to him and saw what had happened. The doctors thought it was too dangerous to remove and that he would lose alot of blood. She called her husband who was 10 hours away and he drove there thinking his son might die. Neurosurgeons thought that by removing the chopstick they would rupture an artery. They shaved his head and were going to open his skull to control bleeding if they had to. They ended up pulling out the chopstick with no problems. The doctors said if it had gone in any further it would have caused life threatening bleeding and he may have been permanently paralyzed.

I think it's sad that that happened to a little baby and his parents shouldn't let a baby play with chopsticks anyways but it's not really their fault. It's good that he was not paralyzed or really hurt very bad from such a thing and at such a young age because he wouldn't deserve to have to live like that just from playing around. I'm sure his parents learned to be more careful of what they let him play with and to keep track of what he's doing more to avoid more things like this.

No comments:

Post a Comment