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Close Call

Aired June 23, 2003 - 08:15   ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.


DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Twelve days ago, 34-year-old Jesse Wickham fell from the second floor of her Michigan home onto a microphone stand. She was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time. The stand pierced her lung --look at these x-rays -- it pierced her lung, crashed into her shoulder bone, just missed her heart and major blood vessels.
Last week, doctors delivered the child, Jesse's third. Mother and son, we are very pleased to tell you, are doing great. Jesse's with us now. She's at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, along with Jessie's brother Curtis Klix, and Dr. Stuart Wayne.

Good Morning, and it is a good morning to all three of you.

Jesse, let's start with you. How are you feeling and how is baby Ryan doing?

JESSIE WICKHAM, FELL TWO FLOORS ONTO MICROPHONE STAND: Baby Ryan's doing fantastic. I'm feeling real good myself. I'm heading home today, so that we can get together with my babies. I miss them.

KAGAN: That, yes, two other kids at home waiting for mom to get home. Take us back to last week. You're 8 1/2 months pregnant, you're on the second story of your home. How in the world did you end up on the bottom floor with a mike stand impaled through you?

WICKHAM: Well, we were fixing the railing and I had take an couple pieces out so that somebody could make me another spindle, and I went to put some clothes over there and hit it. I'm just eight months pregnant. You're not paying attention to your weight shifting. Off I went.

KAGAN: We should point out you're a musician and that's why you had a microphone stand and some other musical instruments and equipment down there on the floor. Curtis, I think the only other people home were the kids, is that right?

CURTIS KLIX, JESSIE WICKHAM'S BROTHER: That's right.

KAGAN: Did you get a phone call, or how did you hear about what happened to your sister?

KLIX: Basically, I lived just up the road from my sister. When I came down the road, the ambulance and all the fire trucks were out in front of her house, and my niece and nephew were running around the side of the house, and I approached them and asked them where they were headed? And they said they were going to the neighbors' home. The next thing I wanted to do was confirm that with my sister. So I went to the house and the EMS people would not let me into the house to speak to my sister. So at that point, you know, I stood around waiting, you know, to get some definite answer of what happened. I was able to find out that she had landed on a microphone stand and, you know, they were doing everything they could to help her out. They cut the microphone stand off, and then she was airlifted to the U of M Hospital.

KAGAN: Let me ask you, as I understand, you actually, with this thing sticking through you, you still were able to call 911 yourself and it was your 7-year-old son that helped guide the emergency workers to the home?

WICKHAM: Actually, I had A.J. call. I had both A.J. and Katrina sitting at the kitchen table and I was in the middle of the floor on the living room. On the floor, I didn't want to move once I realized this big large thing was in my shoulder.

KAGAN: Understandable.

WICKHAM: Yes, so I was trying to talk them...

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Aired June 23, 2003 - 08:15   ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: Twelve days ago, 34-year-old Jesse Wickham fell from the second floor of her Michigan home onto a microphone stand. She was 8 1/2 months pregnant at the time. The stand pierced her lung --look at these x-rays -- it pierced her lung, crashed into her shoulder bone, just missed her heart and major blood vessels.
Last week, doctors delivered the child, Jesse's third. Mother and son, we are very pleased to tell you, are doing great. Jesse's with us now. She's at University of Michigan Hospital in Ann Arbor, along with Jessie's brother Curtis Klix, and Dr. Stuart Wayne.

Good Morning, and it is a good morning to all three of you.

Jesse, let's start with you. How are you feeling and how is baby Ryan doing?

JESSIE WICKHAM, FELL TWO FLOORS ONTO MICROPHONE STAND: Baby Ryan's doing fantastic. I'm feeling real good myself. I'm heading home today, so that we can get together with my babies. I miss them.

KAGAN: That, yes, two other kids at home waiting for mom to get home. Take us back to last week. You're 8 1/2 months pregnant, you're on the second story of your home. How in the world did you end up on the bottom floor with a mike stand impaled through you?

WICKHAM: Well, we were fixing the railing and I had take an couple pieces out so that somebody could make me another spindle, and I went to put some clothes over there and hit it. I'm just eight months pregnant. You're not paying attention to your weight shifting. Off I went.

KAGAN: We should point out you're a musician and that's why you had a microphone stand and some other musical instruments and equipment down there on the floor. Curtis, I think the only other people home were the kids, is that right?

CURTIS KLIX, JESSIE WICKHAM'S BROTHER: That's right.

KAGAN: Did you get a phone call, or how did you hear about what happened to your sister?

KLIX: Basically, I lived just up the road from my sister. When I came down the road, the ambulance and all the fire trucks were out in front of her house, and my niece and nephew were running around the side of the house, and I approached them and asked them where they were headed? And they said they were going to the neighbors' home. The next thing I wanted to do was confirm that with my sister. So I went to the house and the EMS people would not let me into the house to speak to my sister. So at that point, you know, I stood around waiting, you know, to get some definite answer of what happened. I was able to find out that she had landed on a microphone stand and, you know, they were doing everything they could to help her out. They cut the microphone stand off, and then she was airlifted to the U of M Hospital.

KAGAN: Let me ask you, as I understand, you actually, with this thing sticking through you, you still were able to call 911 yourself and it was your 7-year-old son that helped guide the emergency workers to the home?

WICKHAM: Actually, I had A.J. call. I had both A.J. and Katrina sitting at the kitchen table and I was in the middle of the floor on the living room. On the floor, I didn't want to move once I realized this big large thing was in my shoulder.

KAGAN: Understandable.

WICKHAM: Yes, so I was trying to talk them...

(AUDIO GAP)

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