September 23, 2010
![Skull surgery a milestone in teen’s recovery - Austin American Statesman
I read this in the paper a while back but came across this amazing photo/story again today of a seventeen year old kid who injured himself while skateboarding:
“Houston [Bradley] cannot remember the events of that night, but he took a spill, and his head hit the concrete. By the time he got to UMC Brackenridge, his brain was bleeding and swelling, and doctors had to work fast to remove part of the skull to reduce pressure.
The situation ‘was dire,’ said Daniel Peterson, the neurosurgeon at the Seton Brain and Spine Institute who will perform surgery on him today and who did so that June night. Houston had bruised a part of the brain that controls speech, personality and impulses. He appeared to be unresponsive, and the spaces in the brain normally filled with spinal fluid were ‘smashed out against the skull.’”
The original story in the paper was a bit longer and showed how Bradley lives today, always with a bike helmet on to keep from further injuring himself.
Such a bizarre photo.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l982deMoXl1qzp5ffo1_500.jpg)
Skull surgery a milestone in teen’s recovery - Austin American Statesman
I read this in the paper a while back but came across this amazing photo/story again today of a seventeen year old kid who injured himself while skateboarding:
“Houston [Bradley] cannot remember the events of that night, but he took a spill, and his head hit the concrete. By the time he got to UMC Brackenridge, his brain was bleeding and swelling, and doctors had to work fast to remove part of the skull to reduce pressure.
The situation ‘was dire,’ said Daniel Peterson, the neurosurgeon at the Seton Brain and Spine Institute who will perform surgery on him today and who did so that June night. Houston had bruised a part of the brain that controls speech, personality and impulses. He appeared to be unresponsive, and the spaces in the brain normally filled with spinal fluid were ‘smashed out against the skull.’”
The original story in the paper was a bit longer and showed how Bradley lives today, always with a bike helmet on to keep from further injuring himself.
Such a bizarre photo.
