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Child Survives Skull Crushing Accident with Tractor

A tragic accident in Vienna, Illinois has had a positive outcome for an 11-year-old boy.  Dylan Singleterry, along with his 10-year-old brother, Luke, were playing on a family tractor when Dylan accidentally kicked the tractor out of gear.  In an attempt to prevent his brother from hitting a tree, Luke pushed Dylan off the tractor.  Unfortunately, Dylan fell under the tractor, with the tractor running over his head. 

According to Dylan's mother, Shelley Thomas, "Luke was trying to pull Dylan up to the front gate, and at that time we saw his skull was crushed open and it was mushy on the left side he wasn't responding to us."  Emergency workers were brought to the scene and immediately took Dylan to a local school so a medical helicopter could transport him to a St. Louis hospital for treatment. 

Unfortunately, his parents had to drive to the medical center with the hospital calling every 15 minutes to encourage the family to hurrry because they did not feel that Dylan was going to live.  Before the parents were able to get to the hospital doctors had Dylan in surgery.  The surgery lasted three and a half hours.  Doctors initially thought if Dylan survived, there would be an extensive recovery period and that there was a great potential for significant brain damage or paralysis. 

Amazingly, Dylan has proven the doctors wrong.  Even though the tractor tires crushed his skull and fractured numerous bones in his face, Dylan quickly began communicating again.  Within two weeks of the accident he was released from the hospital.  Although he has suffered some brain damage, his parents say it is hardly noticeable. 

What makes this story even more astonishing is the fact that Dylan has had a shunt in his head since he was born and has suffered several brain bleeds in the past. 

Dylan now has to go through several more surgeries and will require intensive physical therapy, but the early phases of his recovery have been quite miraculous.

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