Some stories of medical amazing-ness really makes you stop in your tracks. And this miracle rescue of a a toddler who nearly perished in a car crash is one of them.
Two weeks ago 16-month-old Jackson Taylor from Melbourne in Australia was in his mother’s car when it collided with another vehicle. Upon pulling her toddler out of the car wreck, his mother knew he was gravely injured.
”The second I pulled him out, I knew his neck was broken,” Jackson’s mother Rylea Taylor told 7 News Melbourne.
Little Jackson was then airlifted to a hospital in Brisbane where he was treated by Dr Geoff Askin, referred to as “Australia’s godfather of spinal surgery”. Discovering that the toddler had suffered an internal decapitation in the accident, the medical team headed up by Dr. Askin was able to reattached his head to his spine.
Taylor described her son’s surgery success as as “a miracle”, as did the doctor who performed it.
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“A lot of children wouldn’t survive that injury in the first place and if they did and they were resuscitated they may never breathe again,” Askin told the TV station, adding that it was the worst injury of its kind he had ever seen.
The six-hour operation involved the surgeon using a piece of Jackson’s rib to graft vertebrae in his neck back together.
The toddler is expected to make a full recovery.
