" It feels stuck on something." " OK, hands off, " ordered Dr. Ebersole.

“感觉是卡在什么东西上了”。“把手放开”，埃伯索尔要求道。

It barely moved. " It feels pretty solid, " Dr.Peterson said. " OK, let's go, " said Dr. Ebersole.

皮特森医生说，“它几乎没有动，刺的很结实。好吧，我们走。”

Dr. Ebersole pointed to a computer screen; it revealed the skewer had a notch in the shaft near the point.

埃伯索尔医生指着电脑屏幕说，画面显示在尖杆尖端附近的柄上有一个刻痕。

Koji Ebersole, MD, an endo-vascular neurosurgeon at KU, was playing tennis when his cell phone rang.

医学博士科吉·埃伯索尔是堪萨斯大学的血管内神经外科医生，电话打过来的时候，他正在打网球。

When Dr.Ebersole heard back from the hospital at 11: 30, he made his final call of the evening.

11点半，埃伯索尔医生收到医院的消息后，他打了当晚的最后一个电话。

Dr.Ebersole looked at the photograph from the hospital on his phone. Whoa, he thought. He'd never seen anything like it.

埃伯索尔医生看了看手机上医院发来的照片。哇，他想。他从来没遇到过这样的情况。

Dr.Ebersole could now see the one-in-a-million trajectory the skewer had taken: It had missed his spine by about half an inch.

它离泽维尔的脊柱只有半英寸。

He nudged it back and forth ever so slightly while Dr. Ebersole watched on the monitor in case the movement harmed a vessel.

他非常轻微地前后推着它，而埃伯索尔医生则盯着监测器，以防尖杆损伤血管。

" The biggest problem is that barbed end, " Dr. Ebersole told the team assembled at 8: 30 a.m. in the angiography suite.

团队早上8点半在血管造影室集合后，埃伯索尔说，“最大的问题是杆子的尖端。”

The images were displayed in real time on a large flat-panel screen hanging from the ceiling at eye level for Dr.Ebersole, just above Xavier.

这些图像实时显示在一个巨大的平板屏幕上，该屏幕悬挂在天花板上，与眼睛齐平。就在泽维尔的正上方。

Dr. Ebersole watched the tip of the skewer safely pass the vertebral artery. " It's sliding pretty easy now, " said Dr. Peterson.

埃伯索尔看着杆子的尖端安全地通过了椎动脉处。皮特森医生说，“现在移动它非常轻松”。

Dr.Ebersole asked the doctors in the pediatric ICU, where Xavier and his family waited, to talk to them and gauge whether he was brave enough to hold on.

在泽维尔和他的家人在小儿科重症监护室等候时，埃伯索尔医生和那里的医生进行了沟通，以评估这个孩子是否有足够的勇气坚持下去。

I don't know how a kid can be so lucky, thought Dr. Ebersole. " Jeremy, " he said, " put your hands on that thing, get a feel for how easily it'll move."

埃伯索尔医生说，我不知道这个孩子怎么会这么幸运。他说，“杰里米，把你的手放在那个杆子上，感受一下它容不容易松动。”

Dr. Peterson carefully let go of the skewer and took a half step back, while Dr.Ebersole enhanced the view. The clearer picture showed that it was hung up on a neck ligament, not a danger.

皮特森医生谨慎地放开尖杆，并往后退了半步，埃伯索尔加强了检测视图。更清晰的图片显示它挂在颈部韧带上，没有危险。