Freak accident has miraculous outcome
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Remi Embree, 6, of Griggsville, stayed over night in a Springfield Hospital after a bicycle wreck left him impaled by what his mother believes was the brake handle of his bike. (Submited photo)
By BETH ZUMWALT
Monday, June 15 was like any other day for Shelby Hulett and her family.
“I was sitting on the swings with my newborn and my eight-year-old daughter and my son Remi, six, was riding his bike,” Hulett said. “Remi had a smaller bike and he could do wheelies on it. For Easter he got a bigger bike and was trying to master the stunt on the bigger bike.”
Hulled said no one is sure what happened, but, she suspects his hand slipped off the handle bar, causing him to wreck.
“I heard a pop,” she said. “He came walking over to where I was. I thought it was his arm, because he was holding it funny, but, it turns out he was holding his stomach. He walked up to me and said ‘Mommy, am I going to die?’”
Hulett said she lifted his shirt and saw what she assumes were intestines protruding out of a wound on Remi’s stomach.
“I gave the baby to my daughter and started yelling for help,” she said. “My neighbor came over and we called 9-1-1.”
Remi was airlifted to Springfield, where surgeons were able to repair the injury with laparoscopy surgery and then was kept 24 hours for observation.
Hulett said it was a scary situation. She couldn’t go with Remi in the helicopter and he was so scared.
“He just kept asking,’Mommy, am I going to die,” she said. “I think the pop I heard was when he removed the bar from his body.
In most cases medical protocol advises not pulling an object out once it has deeply penetrated the skin into the body.
“He didn’t know that and when he got up, he pulled the bar out and some of his intestines came out,” Hulett said. “There was hardly any blood and we had just had lunch and his stomach was full so I couldn’t tell if it was swollen or not.”
Remi is on light duty for the next few weeks and since being an active little boy, his mother has her hands full with a new baby and a six-year-old who should be staying calm, plus her eight year old.
“The fair was in town last week and the doctor said he couldn’t ride on any of the rides,” Hulett said. “My finance had a car in the demolition derby and he let Remi help him work on it. Remi loves that kind of stuff,so he was excited about it.”
