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OK Solberg:Spring wheat $5.42 a bushel. 550lb steer calf $4.03 Butcher hog in Iowa 66ยข a pound, and a 100lb fat lamb in Billings will fetch you $2.47 a pound, but guys there's more, much more.
OK Solberg:Okay. A very special episode today. Very special, fabulously fabulous. But first our bible verse which comes from Proverbs 27 verse 2. Let another praise you and not your own mouth, a stranger and not your own lips. Oh, yes. Great verse from Proverbs 27:2 So what's it saying? Well, it's saying don't be a braggart.
OK Solberg:Don't brag about what you've done, but let someone else brag you up if there's something to brag about. Well, I'm gonna be bragging up a person all of us know. Today, at least we know her by her voice because she comes on the airwaves right after this episode today. She works on Friday and her name is Doc. Well, that's her radio name.
OK Solberg:And in a moment, you're gonna find out why her nickname is Doc. I learned this story, guys, only a week ago today, last Friday. Gather around kitties and hear this story. It's a true story. And you know how I like local history and local stories?
OK Solberg:Listen. Back in 1993, there was a celebration and a competition on the Crow Indian Reservation. I think of it like a powwow, but I don't know if that exactly was its name. Anyway, it's a gathering on the Crow Indian Reservation right here in Southern Montana. And there's a competition where they throw a spear at a target that's on the ground 40 yards away.
OK Solberg:Now these spears, I understand, are called sparrows and they're homemade. Basically, take the metal shaft from a screwdriver, grind the end to a point and jam it into a broom handle. Put a few feathers on it to make it a little more aerodynamic and presto, you got yourself a spear. Now, unfortunately, a young boy, 10 years old, ran across the competition field. Listen, guys.
OK Solberg:And that spear lodged in his head. Yes. You heard me right. It entered his head just above the right ear, penetrated the skull, and went into the brain and the tip lodged below his left eye. The boy remains conscious.
OK Solberg:He ran to his parents and they panicked. In the panic, they knew they had to get him medical help, but it was a problem getting him into the car as he had a five foot long spear sticking out of his head. His father carefully maneuvered his young son in the back seat of the car and had the window rolled down and the spear then stuck out the window. Dad in the back seat with the boy, mom driving the car, the closest hospital was Sheridan, Wyoming. They headed that direction after someone called 911.
OK Solberg:Well, the first responders including an ambulance and a highway patrolman met them at the intersection of the interstate. They looked the situation over and realized that it would be too challenging and too harmful for the boy to get him out of that car into the ambulance. So the highway patrolman siphoned gas from his car into the parents car and down the road they went. Once in Sheridan, the doctors realized realized this was a serious situation that they weren't able to handle so they decided to fly him to Billings, Montana. Now a man with a bolt cutter showed up and lobbed off the shaft of the spear there in Sheridan.
OK Solberg:In Billings, there was only one neurosurgeon available and that doctor didn't feel comfortable to do it without an assistant. Therefore, the decision was made to fly the boy to the Denver area. Enter doc. Our doc. What?
OK Solberg:Yes. Our doc, the doc you were going to hear on KMMR as soon as I say, don't be bitter, doctor Cynthia Norgrand MD PhD MSBS. See why we just call her doc? Doc was the person on call that day in the Denver facility. This lady that you're about to hear removed that spear from the boy's head.
OK Solberg:Doc had to cut a circle of his skull out to remove the spear. Now doc can tell you the specifics, but it was a harrowing experience. She removed it. The boy lived. The only complication was the loss of his eyesight in the left eye.
OK Solberg:Doc, you're a hero. Doc has the spear that was removed and I held it in my own hands right here in Malta, Montana, still has a piece of the boy's skull on the spear. Doc, what a deal. What a job. You saved his life.
OK Solberg:That there is a story. And now the brain surgeon lives in good old Malta, Montana area and her patient, Robin Stewart is still alive and well. Doc, well done. Well done. Wow.
OK Solberg:I hope to shout and call the doctor. Doc, this one's for you. So until next time, as you go out there, remember now, don't be bitter.