| Show Park City Boy Carries Dagger of Glass in Heart Seven Weeks Not very many people are stabbed to the heart and live to tell teU of ot it it Robert Spencer year 12 old son of ot Mr and Mrs Dear Dearl Spencer of ot Park City Is one of ot the few tew For seven weeks Robert carried a sliver of ot glass In his hb chest pressing against the aorta never knowing that his bis life hung in a narrow balance Only Saturday the sliver was removed In delicate surgery and the boy Is recovering Fell on Glass Claw It all began on April 25 when Robert and a friend were scuff ling In downtown Park City In Inthe Inthe the playful Casale Robert fell teU and anda I Ia a pie piece e of glass glas pierced his ls chest A Park City physician examined the lad took rays X-rays which did not show the presence of ot foreign mat ter fer So the physician sutured the wound with four tour stitches and that was was' that But there was a wedge of glass glau inside his chest It was three fourths of an Inch long sir one of ot an inch thick and ta tn per paring from three three sixteenths to sixteenth one-sixteenth of ot an inch It Jt was touching the aorta aorta and ever every I time his heart beat a little blood escaped Into the body It wasn't wasn until last Wednesday that Robert complained about chest pains his mother said The pains left and the family as it was a natural aftermath of ot the accident I I Couldn't Breathe Friday Robert visited at the home of ot relatives Mr and Mrs Kenneth W W. Lund In Salt Lake I 1 II I City and frolicked with the kids About he said he couldn't breathe lIe He started to swell and the Lunds Lunda rushed him to a doctor Robert was in shock and near death by the time he wa was taken to the hospital the physician said A It chest surgeon worked on the boy for tor two hours The Th aorta had bled to the ex J tent that we removed a pint of ot blood from the boys boy's heart sack the doctor sai said 1 Robert had a pretty tough time of it for tor a couple of days But nut Buthe's Buthe's hes he's doing all aU right and he can thank his lucky start stars that he will have something BIG BIa to boast about about and and be able to tell teU It |
