UK man gets pierced by 15 inch twig in neck, saved
ANI | HT Correspondent, London
Jul 30, 2013 02:36 AM IST
Surgeons in UK have saved a 34-year-old man’s life after they successfully removed a 15 inch-long twig which had impaled his neck.
Surgeons in UK have saved a 34-year-old man’s life after they successfully removed a 15 inch-long twig which had impaled his neck.
Adrian Wood, from Werrington, Cambridgeshire, fell off his bike on a ride and the tree branch skewered him. It ripped through his jugular vein, voicebox and oesophagus, ending up just two millimetres from an artery.
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Adrian picked himself up and walked along an alleyway with the 2 inch-wide branch stuck in his neck.
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