Javelin victim wants to return to school
PA Hamilton Seven days after missing death by millimetres, Troy King was back home looking forward to going back school.
A Hamilton surgeon, Mr Ross Blair, has kept the part of a javelin which was removed from Troy’s chest during surgery. Troy’s memento is a right-angled scar running from just below the left armpit across to the centre of the chest and
then downwards towards the stomach. The javelin entered Troy’s chest on the left side, penetrating the outer lining of the heart He remembered the accident which occurred on March II during the Hamilton inter-secondary school zone athletic championships at Porritt Stadium. He said he did not see the javelin coming before it hit him.
His parents, Dawn and George King, of Te Awamutu, said they saw the accident happen. Mrs King, a part-time nurse at Waikato Hospital, said at first glance she wondered what Troy was “carrying around.” When she realised what had happened she "thought he was a goner.” A St John’s College staff member called out a warning not to pull the javelin out
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