Fifteen-year-old Eli Gregg of Kansas is grateful to be alive this week, after neurosurgeons removed a 10-inch knife blade from his face.
led the teen to come crashing toward the ground -- and the next thing he knew, the blade was plunged directly into his face.
"At the time of Xavier's case, nothing like that had been seen at our hospital amongst the personnel that were involved," Ebersole told CNN."This is supposed to be once in a career."In Xavier's case, he was reportedly attacked by a swarm of wasps while climbing the treehouse ladder, which is what led him to fall. As for Gregg, Ebersole says the fall happened when Eli was trying to take away the knife from the younger kids to protect them.
"When she looked at me, she just gasped," the boy told CNN. But he says he couldn't have been more grateful she was close by when he needed her most., “At first, I thought it was just normal, and then he came to the door … it was blood, and he had a piece of metal in his face."One look at the X-ray images of Gregg's injuries, and it's easy to assume they would have been fatal.
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