Boy Survives as Power Saw Cuts Abdomen
A 3-year-old Fullerton boy was critically injured when the blade of a power saw became embedded in his abdomen, but he is expected to recover with only a deep scar to show for it, doctors said.
“He is a very lucky boy,” said Dr. Mohd Dhar, one of the Western Medical Center-Santa Ana surgeons who operated on Ryan Anthony Galvan for four hours. “He should have been cut in two.”
Ryan was rushed to the hospital Tuesday after his father, Antonio Galvan, found him in the side yard of their home with the blade of an electric circular saw lodged in his midsection. Galvan said a friend, who was installing new windows, had left the plugged-in saw unattended on the ground for a minute.
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