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Olivia Smith is very lucky. The 19-month-old toddler from New Boston, N.H., is expected to make a
full recovery after she fell off a reclining chair onto the end of a
colored pencil that pierced her eye.
"If you can consider someone lucky who has a pencil go through her
brain, you have to consider this girl remarkably lucky," Dr. Darren
Orbach, one of more than 50 doctors and specialists who were assembled
to handle Smith's case. "If you asked me to sit down with a patient's
scan and draw a line that would go from one end of the brain to the
other, avoiding every major blood vessel and even avoiding critical
areas of the brain. I would be hard-pressed to find a pathway that would
cause so little injury."
For 45 minutes, Dr. Shenandoah Robinson slowly and carefully pulled the pencil out, according to WHDH.
"I would pull a little bit out. [A] doctor would shoot some
images…I’d pull a little bit more out. It was nerve-racking,” Robinson
said.
Olivia suffered three strokes as a result of the injury, but she is at home now and doing well, according to KTLA.
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