14-year-old Briton Devon White, while on vacation in Italy with his family, went fishing on a boat with a loaded harpoon.
Somehow, the harpoon fired a charged arrow on its own and it hit the teenager right in the eye, piercing through his skull at 60 miles per hour.
To save Devon's life, he was quickly transported by helicopter to the hospital. Amazingly, while the boy was first loaded into an ambulance, and then taken to the hospital, he remained conscious and could communicate calmly and normally.
Chief of the Marine Police Salvator Capazzo says he considers what he saw a real miracle.
“I've never seen anything like it. A harpoon arrow protruded from his head and he talked, and I was amazed by the fact that he was still alive."
In a hospital in Rome, surgeons were able to extract an arrow from the skull during a 3-hour operation and predicted that the teenager would most likely be able to fully recover.
After the doctors published shocking pictures of Devon's head injury, it is difficult to imagine that the teenager did not die immediately after the shot, and even more so that he has every chance of recovery.
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And as if justifying his newly acquired nickname "Lucky", the guy, according to the doctors, will even be able to preserve his vision in the injured eye, since even though the arrow hit the eye socket, the eye itself was not severely damaged.
Surgeon Alberto Delitala told reporters that the harpoon pierced the teen's brain, but caused not as dire damage as one might think at first glance, because it came out through the top of the parietal bone. However, according to the surgeon, in his 38 years, he has not yet seen such an incident.
Now a teenager is in a state of artificial coma, and only when he wakes up, it will be possible to determine the real consequences of such a wound and its effect on brain activity.
