Chinese boy gets chopstick removed from his brain

The_Minister

http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/asiapcf/01/05/china.chop.stick.kid/index.html

Chinese boy lucky after chopstick enters skullLi Jingchao learned the hard way -- be careful what you stick up your nose.

The 14-month-old boy was playing with chopsticks when, his doctor says, he fell and one of the sticks pierced his nose.

"It touched upon the deep area of his brain, four centimeters of the chopstick was inside his skull," Dr. Sun Wei told CNN.

Jingchao's mother, Zhao Guilu didn't see what happened -- she was in another room at the time, but came running when she heard her son crying.

"I was washing dishes. I rushed in and saw him lying on the ground. He couldn't stop crying and I noticed a chopstick stuck in his nose."

She went to a local clinic, but doctors there warned her it was too dangerous to try to remove the chopstick because it may cause massive bleeding. Zhao was frantic and called her husband. A relative offered to drive them from their small village, hundreds of miles to a hospital in Beijing.
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"I thought at that time, it is all over, my boy will die," said his father Li Guanglai. "During the 10 hours of driving I felt depressed. I could barely breathe. I looked at my boy and his right side was numb. He was paralyzed."

Neurosurgeons, including Sun prepped for surgery but they feared removing the chopstick would rupture an artery. The little boy's head was shaved and they were ready to open his skull to control the bleeding if necessary.

But when they pulled the chopstick out -- nothing. It simply came straight out, much easier it seems than how it went in.

"I never thought it would be this successful." said his dad. "I would say this hospital gave him a second life."

Doctors said if the chopstick had gone any further in it would have caused life threatening bleeding and if it was a little more to either side the boy may have been permanently paralyzed.

"The position of the chopstick was very, very lucky for him," Sun said.

In others news, over 200 stereotypes were made redundant this morning....

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Pighead

Think the neurosurgeons may have left a bit of it in there. The bloody "p" has gone missing. Cowboys.

Excellent ninja edit by The Minister. The equivalent of an uppercut smack into Pighead's chops.
No coming back from that one. Game over.

To try and save face, here's an amazing chopstick fact:
Chopsticks should not be crossed on a table, as this symbolizes death, or vertically stuck in the rice, which is done during a funeral.

SoWatchaWant

LOL, that's the Chinese for ya:rolleyes:

Wazdakka

Pighead wrote: »

To try and save face, here's an amazing chopstick fact:
Chopsticks should not be crossed on a table, as this symbolizes death, or vertically stuck in the rice, which is done during a funeral.

That's actually nearly useful to know..

brummytom

Wazdakka wrote: »

That's actually nearly useful to know..

Only if you know Chinese people...

Pighead

Wazdakka wrote: »

That's actually nearly useful to know..

Pighead specialises in nearly useful to know facts about chopsticks. Another good one to remember if you are ever entertaining Chinese guests is thus:

Never ever ever ever make a right angle with your chopsticks as this means that you are letting your guests know that you are considering asking their second daughter for her hand in marriage.

Big big no no, as in most cases your guests second daughter will have been flushed down a street drain at birth due to Chinas restrictive family laws. Huge potential for uncomfortable silences with this faux pas.

CHD

lol http://boards.ie/vbulletin/showpost.php?p=63830176&postcount=1

admiralofthefleet

the year of the twat?

Pompey Magnus

Pighead wrote: »

To try and save face, here's an amazing chopstick fact:
Chopsticks should not be crossed on a table, as this symbolizes death, or vertically stuck in the rice, which is done during a funeral.

Apparently its also considered bad luck to insert a chopstick into the brain.

bonerm

If he had been raised to eat with his hands then all he'd have got stuck up there would be a finger.

ascanbe

He always had food(utensils) on the brain, that fella.
Unless it's not the lad i'm thinking of, in which case perhaps an oriental zombie had a go at him.
Will now go and read the article to find out what really happened...

orourkeda

2 portions of beef snot with chopstick brains to go

flag123

i was expecting to hear something about Africa...

ejmaztec

I wonder where he put the other chopstick?:eek:

jd007

Lol reminds me of The Simpsons where homer has the crayon lodged in his brain!