Surgeons in Brisbane, Australia, took six hours to reattach the 16-month-old boy’s head to his spine after it was internally torn from his neck in 70-mph crash.
A 16-month-old boy, Jaxon Taylor, was riding in a car with his mother and 9-year-old sister last month when they collided with another car in Australia. The force of the impact tore apart Jaxon’s upper vertebrae, a condition called internal decapitation.
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“The second I pulled him out, I knew that he — I knew that his neck was broken,” Jaxon Taylor’s mother, Rylea Taylor, told 7 News Melbourne.
Jaxon was airlifted to a hospital in Brisbane, and ended up in the care of spinal surgeon Geoff Askin. “A lot of children wouldn’t survive that injury in the first place,” Askin said. “And if they did and they were resuscitated they may never move or breathe again.” He will have to wear a neck brace for a couple months to allow the tissues and nerves connecting his head to his spine to heal, according to the channel.
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But the boy seems to be making a remarkable recovery, kicking a balloon, laughing and hugging his parents. “It is a miracle,” Rylea Taylor said.