A mother thought her son was going to die when the son fell while climbing a pole and landed on a spiked barbade, which pierced his kidney.
Teegun Williams, 8, was playing with friends and was sitting on a pillar outside a church in Cwmparc, Wales, when he fell.
Incredibly, he managed to get out of the fence and into the house, despite an open wound in his side, reports The Mirror.
Addie Morris, 29, said she almost fainted and later learned the spike had penetrated more than 2 cm into her body, penetrating her kidney. He was taken to the Royal Glamorgan Hospital and then transferred to Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospital in Cardiff, where he stayed for five days.
Addie told WalesOnline: ““I panicked and was shaking – it was horrific. So much crossed my mind and I was in complete shock. He was clammy, really white, and shaking – he thought he was going to die. He was out playing with his friends and was sitting on a little pillar next door to the church. He then slipped and pierced his side on the spike. He pulled himself off and then walked home to tell me what he had done. He came home and he’s quite clumsy anyway so I said: ‘What have you done now?’ and then he turned around and I nearly fainted when I saw all the blood on his back,” reports The Mirror.
Addy said Teegun requires surgery to clean the wound and investigate the extent of the damage.
Fortunately, Teegun suffered no lasting damage and will make a full recovery.
Adie added: “They told me he is so, so lucky that he has no permanent damage and didn’t bleed out. For now he will have to have physiotherapy for his breathing as he wasn’t filling his lungs properly and also physiotherapy to strengthen that one side because the muscle has gone weak where it was impacted by the spike,” reports The Mirror.
A spokesman for Rhondda Cynon Taf council said: “We can confirm we have received a report relating to this incident and council officers will investigate this further,” reports The Mirror.
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