NEW BOSTON, NH (KTLA) — It took a team of 50 doctors to remove a pencil jammed into the brain of a 19-month old girl.
The toddler was coloring when she apparently fell off her chair while holding one of the pencils.
The orange-colored pencil pierced the girl’s eye, lodging 5.5 inches into her brain.
Olivia was airlifted to to Children’s Hospital in Boston.
“The pencil entered over the right eye and literally crossed the brain to the back next to the left ear,” said Dr. Darren Orbach, neurointerventionalist.
Miraculously the pencil didn’t puncture anything vital, but Olivia suffered three strokes during the ordeal.
She is expected to make a full recovery.
13 Comments to “Toddler Impaled Through Eye With Colored Pencil”
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January 25, 2013 at 11:46 PM
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Anyways, Poor little child, I'm glad her prognosis looks good.
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January 26, 2013 at 1:45 AM
Thank God they found it and got it out in time. The same thing happened to Homer Simpson, except it was crayon, I think. It’s what made him so stupid but they didn’t discover it until Homer was well into adulthood.
They took it out but Homer didn’t like being smart.
January 26, 2013 at 1:59 AM
I wonder what color pencil it was.
January 26, 2013 at 4:37 AM
The orange-colored pencil pierced the girl’s eye
January 28, 2013 at 5:08 PM
Somehow I doubt that they would have not found the orange colored pencil sticking out of her head.
January 26, 2013 at 4:11 AM
This never would have happened if the mother had been smart enough to predict the future, child proof the pencil, make sure the kid was not actually colouring, and had never given birth to her in the first place. Basically, I'm saying the mother messed up all round.
January 26, 2013 at 5:33 AM
awww. . .now she doesn't know math
January 26, 2013 at 9:12 PM
Fortunately at 19 months old, she'll never remember what happened to her. Wow.