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Girl survives screwdriver through eye socket into brain with "no ill effects"
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Last edited by CaseCom; Dec 27, 2007 at 02:32 AM.
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Ouch! I'm surprised she didn't even lose her eye!
Be warned, you can only view the page once. I clicked on the picture to see a larger version and when I tried to go back to the article, it asked me to register. I had to open the link with Firefox to be able to see it. So read it first, then click on the picture.
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"He said his daughter wandered into a room where children have adult supervision during the church service. The girl found a screwdriver, he said, and moments later another adult saw it sticking out of her left eye."
WTF???
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That is incredible! I would feel really lucky if I was that kid...
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Note to self. Don't eat cookies in the morning while reading MacNN threads.
Wow though. Can't beleive she survived. Some "adult-supervised" room eh.
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All of a sudden a screwdriver is sticking out of her left eye. Nice, but stupid, very stupid.
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Originally Posted by AngelaBaby
All of a sudden a screwdriver is sticking out of her left eye. Nice, but stupid, very stupid.
So.... are you calling the story's validity into question or are you calling a 2-year old stupid?
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WHOA!! Damn. That's just nuts! Talk about a miracle though. I wonder how that adds up. How she's recovered, that is. I mean, I've always thought that brain cells can't grow back? Does it have something to do with the fact that she's only 2?
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Originally Posted by AngelaBaby
All of a sudden a screwdriver is sticking out of her left eye. Nice, but stupid, very stupid.
I know, this toddler is clearly retarded.
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Originally Posted by loki74
WHOA!! Damn. That's just nuts! Talk about a miracle though. I wonder how that adds up. How she's recovered, that is. I mean, I've always thought that brain cells can't grow back? Does it have something to do with the fact that she's only 2?
Probably. Neurones don't grow back, but the brain is very malleable, it can rewire itself to accomodate a new situation, especially at that young age. Plus, a screwdriver is not very thick, it probably destroyed very little tissue (and if she's lucky, there's chance the brain just got out of the way and avoided the object, as it is very supple).
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Wow, very interesting stuff. Thanks for the link.
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[img]http://stmedia.startribune.com/images/666*500/2screw.jpg[/img]
hm, weird. The link works for the pic but it won't take the tag.
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I guess the BB doesn't like the *. Tinyurl to the rescue:
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Apparently, you can stick all kinds of items into children's eyes with no ill effects.
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At very young ages, the child's brain is so flexible and malleable that all sorts of things can happen and the child can recover very nicely. In particular, the frontal lobes are the last to fully develop, often as late in life as age 25! (The auto insurance industry figured this out without the neuroscience behind it, but it's definitely true.) This may provide some insight into why two soldiers might experience the same explosive trauma and have very different outcomes-the younger one recovers better than the older one. The experience of dealing with GIs who have been subjected to the kind of attacks our soldiers are experiencing in Iraq, where body armor is saving more and more lives, is teaching medical science more and more about how little trauma it takes to seriously disrupt the brain. This sort of acquired brain injury is a very little understood phenomenon, but it's getting a lot of study in recent years.
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