Jessiah Jackson, a 17-month-old child from North Carolina is lucky to be alive today. Jackson somehow managed to get an L-shaped rod to penetrate his skull and enter his brain.

Doctors say that he is a “miracle child” for being able to sustain such a blow to the head at a very young age.

Carlton Jones, the uncle of Jessiah took him to a Wilmington, N.C. Hospital at first, but the doctors told him that the injury was too dangerous for them to take care of. Luckily a neurosurgeon at the University of North Carolina was able to perform the surgery successfully.

The surgery was deemed a success and little Jessiah was up and about within hours of the operation.