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Jordan Taylor

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  • Jordan Taylor is a 9-year-old Texas boy who has made a full recovery after suffering an orthopedic decapitation in an October 2008 car accident where a dump truck ran a stop sign and plowed into the car driven by Taylor's mother, Stacey Perez. The force of the accident caused Taylor's head to lift up off of his neck and move forward, though his spine remained intact. The survival rate for this type of injury is only one to two percent, but doctors at Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas were successfully able to reconnect Taylor's head using screws and titanium plates and rods.CBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
  • Fast Facts

    1. Taylor suffered an orthopedic decapitation in a car accidentCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
    2. The survival rate for an injury of this type is only 1 to 2 percentCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
    3. He was treated at Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Fort Worth, TexasCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
    4. Dr. Richard Roberts was able to successfully reconnect Taylor's headCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
    5. Taylor has made a full recovery
    6. He can talk and walk without the use of a walker
    7. While in the hospital Taylor received several celebrity visitors including Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony RomoCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)
    8. Taylor is expected to return to school on the January 7 or 8
  • Quotes

    As soon as we saw his radiographs, his MRI CT scan, we knew how bad his injury was, what condition he was in. We needed to make sure that Jordan was stabilized, so we first put him into a halo. It's a carbon fiber ring that is screwed to his skull and attached to a vest. And then we took him to surgery. We wound up putting a titanium plate on the back of his skull and attaching that by screws and rods to his neck to keep him connected,—Dr. Richard Roberts of Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.CBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)

    As far as I'm concerned, he has a full recovery -- he is neurologically intact. He walks -- that's one of the biggest things. He isn't weak and is active; it's amazing. He also has youth on his side. Being young, he has better tissue than someone who is 60 or 70,—Dr. Richard Roberts of Cook Childrens' Medical Center in Fort Worth, Texas.CBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)

    In ICU, they were cautiously optimistic that he was not going to be paralyzed. But the recuperation that he's had was in the transitional care unit (TCU). He started in the wheelchair, then the walker, then he was walking. At first, he wasn't talking at all, and they thought he would have brain damage, and he surprised everyone by regaining all this speech.—Stacey PerezCBS News: All But Decapitated, Boy, 9, Recovers... (December 22, 2008)

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