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Former
Idaho beauty queen Jamie Hilton suffered brain swelling after a
devastating fall in June. Doctors removed a large chunk of her skull to
allow the swelling to heal, then replaced it a few weeks later. In the
meantime, where did they store the skull? In her abdomen.
Doctors
removed 25 percent of her skull and surgically zipped it into her
stomach, where it would remain as her brain swelling subsided.
"It was pretty shocking," laughed Hilton. "I didn't know they did that."
The
mother of three was in a medically induced coma for several days, then
woke to find her head shaved and stitched shut, a protrusion in her
stomach.
"There was just this bulge," she said. And her head "was Frankenstein-style."
Hilton
is recovering well, and has chronicled her ordeal on her blog. The
family did not have health insurance when Hilton was injured.
Here's the story.
Here's Hilton's blog.
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