Yasser Lopez Had Near Death Experience



In June 2012, 16-year-old Yasser Lopez and his friends went spear fishing at a Miami lake to way to celebrate the last day of school. 


One of his friends was loading the spear gun when it accidentally deployed, hitting Yaseer in the head. Yasser was airlifted to Ryder Trauma Center with three feet of the spear protruding from his forehead.


The spear entered Yasser’s head two inches above the right eye and came out at the vertex at the back of his skull. 


A rebar cutter, provided by Miami-Dade Fire Rescue, and vise-gripes (locking pliers) were used to stabilize the spear in the patient’s head. 


Eighteen inches of the protruding spear was removed on the outside of his forehead to allow doctors to do a complete radiographic evaluation of the patient. Luckily, the spear didn’t hit any vessels in hi

s brain.

Lopez said, ‘I could see the spear. It was bothering me on the back, like it was scratching the floor.


'I could feel it inside my head, so I wanted to take it out,’ Yasser Lopez told Today News.


The first person by his side was witness Astrid Cardoza who urged Yasser not to touch the spear.


‘I just held his hand and I said you can't pull the spear out,’ she told Today News.


‘And he told me “please don't let me die” And I said you're not going to die.’

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