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Nebraska boy pulls toy metal badge (from Winterset) out of eye; Spaghetti feed to benefit this University Hospitals patient
John McGlothlen
Nov. 13, 2008 2:15 pm
From The Fremont Tribune (Nebraska):
“I was watching TV and I fell asleep. I started to wake up when I was falling out of bed and I hit my eye on the toy sheriff's badge,” he says. [7-year-old] Dawson [Holverson] holds up the bronze-colored, metal badge that he got while visiting actor John Wayne's birthplace in Iowa. ...In April, it started to detach again. That's when he was referred to specialists in Iowa City, where his retina was re-attached via a laser procedure. ... Dawson will need to return to Iowa on Tuesday for another checkup and on Dec. 16. ...
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