(WHDH) — A 13-year-old boy is recovering after a brush with death last weekend.
Darius Foreman’s frightening ordeal began as he was building a tree house Saturday in Maryland.
Foreman fell from a branch, knocking over a wooden board that had a six-inch screw in it. The board slammed down onto his head, thrusting the screw into his skull.
Doctors say he was just a millimeter away from bleeding to death.
First responders had to cut the board from five-feet to two-feet in order to get Foreman into the ambulance.
Foreman’s mother says the rest of the board remained attached to his head for about seven hours.
Now recovering after a successful surgery, Foreman is keeping the screw that nearly ended his life.
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