Rylea Taylor from Melbourne, Australia is
driving on the highway. Her most valuable treasures are sitting in the
backseat: her 9-year-old daughter Shane and the 16-month-old Jackson. She
shoots her children a smile through the rearview mirror. The next moment she
collides at 70 mph with an 18-year-old's car.
Mother and daughter are left unharmed. But baby
Jackson hangs lifeless in his child seat. "The second I pulled Jackson out
of the car I felt that his neck was broken," remembers mother Rylea
tearfully. The impact severed the 1-year-old's head from his neck - he was
quasi internally decapitated! Through some miracle, the boy survived and was
flown to a hospital in Melbourne.
Surgeon Dr. Geoff Askin had never seen such a
bad case: "A lot of children wouldn’t survive that injury in the first
place, and if they did and they were resuscitated then they may never move or
breathe again." But after a 6-hour operation, the doctors manage to
reconnect the cervical vertebra. - with wire and a piece of one of Jackson's
ribs.
Jackson now has to wear a special steel
construction for the next 8 weeks, that holds his head in place so that the
vertebra can grow back together. But, apart from that, the little wild child is
chipper and is waddling energetically around the hospital! Mom Rylea and dad
Andrew still cry when they think about how lucky their little son was
considering the circumstances: "We are so unbelievably thankful. It's a
complete miracle!"
What an unbelievable story: the little Jackson Taylor's head
was severed from his neck - and he survived it unharmed! When this 1-year-old,
watched over by more than one guardian angle, also impressed you so much, then
share this story with everyone that you know.
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