I am so sorry for everyone's losses. So many life altering changes come with it.
Over the summer my 11 year old son had a severe impalement injury when a dead tree collapsed on him down at the creek. It just barely missed his femoral artery and bowel by a great miracle. A 3 inch diameter branch entered near his groin and exited next to the rectum. We spent 12 days in the hospital and several months of recovery at home. He is back at school now and back to doing all his normal physical activities. Right after surgery they initially thought he might need a colostomy among other scary things but he ended up not needing it. We are very blessed that he is alive.