[url]http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/Northeast/06/12/woman.impaled.ap/index.html[/url]

ANN ARBOR, Michigan (AP) -- A pregnant woman who fell from a loft and was impaled on a microphone stand was in critical condition Thursday after surgery to repair a ruptured lung. Her baby was not harmed, officials said.

Jessie Wickham, 34, was injured at her home on Wednesday. She was 8 1/2 months pregnant.

There were no immediate plans to deliver the baby early, said Kara Gavin, spokeswoman for University of Michigan Hospital.

"The fetus' condition has been monitored constantly throughout Jessie's treatment and operation, and all vital signs appear to be good," Gavin said.

Wickham was in a second-story loft when she became dizzy and fell, crashing through a bannister onto the 3-foot microphone stand, which was amid musical instruments set up on the first floor, officials said.

The microphone pole pierced her body through the upper chest, from front to back, penetrating a lung and shoulder bones but missing her heart and major blood vessel by millimeters, Gavin said.

ouch.


+1

sounds like she was at a concert............WTF is she doing at a concert 8.5 months pregnant in the first place?

Sheesh-Kabob

The article that was in the KC Star on this said she fell from a loft in her home. Yet another woman hurt while living with a musician. Weird story, that's for sure.

EDITED TO ADD: I see now in this version of the story she is placed in the home in the next paragraph. Weird story and specious editing.

Well thats bad luck to fall on a mic stand.

Or any kind of stand for that matter[;)]

Ban microphone stands...do it for the children!

Man I hate it when that happens.

That's gonna leave a mark...

Need to update the "Leave no Child Behind, 2003" legislation.