SALISBURY, Maryland -- A Maryland seventh-grader has survived after the tip of a 6-inch-long metal screw got lodged in his skull.
The Daily Times of Salisbury reports Darius Foreman was building a treehouse at his aunt's house when he fell from a branch. A wooden plank with a screw sticking out of it slammed onto his head.
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Two cousins ran for help. Foreman's mother found him wandering around the yard with a board stuck to his head, the screw penetrating his skull.
Foreman required neurosurgery at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore.
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Dr. Alan Cohen is the hospital's chief of pediatric neurosurgery. The newspaper quotes Cohen as saying the screw's location was a "ticking time bomb."
Foreman was released from the hospital on Thursday, his 13th birthday.