Posted on 01/25/2005 11:31:39 PM PST by LadyShallott
A Canton teenager is recovering after being impaled by a crowbar over the weekend.
Fourteen-year-old Magen Stephens was sledding while being pulled by a four-wheeled ATV when a crowbar hooked to the lid of a septic tank, ripped the sled in half and then lodged in Magen's leg.
She lay stuck there for 45 minutes with the bar coming out through her hip until a neighbor used bolt-cutters to set her free.
Magen's mother Tracy says, "If it would have been a centimeter either way, it could have killed her, because it went through and it hit nothing. It hit no arteries, no veins, it hit absolutely nothing."
Magen is recovering at Akron Children's Hospital where doctors removed the crow bar from her leg.
Thank You, O Lord, for Your Kindness and Mercy to this dear child!
I hate it when that happens.
Amen to that. :)
: )
Ummm, it hit her leg.
Amen!
After being impaled from a crowbar wielded to a septic tank, I hope the girl is being administerd and watched by doctors for signs of infection-- even if the bar itself severed no vessels or bones.
not that there would be feces on the outside of a septic tank, but dirt and rust on the crowbar could be cause for alarm...
I have to say it's people like you that make me a daily FReeper! As I was reading this and practically feeling the pain of this girl, your comment made me laugh out loud! I am just glad that ultimately she's going to be okay... Thanks for the laugh...
How about this one: "That's gonna leave a mark."
Thank God she's okay.
What a freak accident, though.
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