Doctors say the young girl got very lucky and could have lost her life if the dart had hit a blood vessel.
A 7-year-old girl from northwestern Indiana is back home after recovering from what doctors call a freak accident.
Olivia was playing at a friend's house last month when her mom, Jessica, got a call saying Olivia was hurt. A blow dart went inside her nose and became embedded in the base of her skull. "We wanted to do that in very controlled circumstances and we had a wonderful group of people to pull together in terms of being able to do this in a safe and planned fashion which is what occurred," Pediatric Neurosurgeon Laurie Ackerman said."It was in a deep location, it was in the base of the skull and it was right next to a very important blood vessel.. miraculously she was perfectly normal," said neurosurgeon Mitesh Shah.
"Every single step of this, even at the time when we didn't realize it, there has been a blessing behind every piece of this situation," Jessica said."I don't know how much luckier any one person or family can be."
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