A car crash two weeks ago caused life-threatening injuries on 16-month old Jason Taylor. However, Brisbane surgeons saved the toddler’s life by reattaching his decapitated head.

It is not the kind of decapitation that Jihadi John did to American and British hostages. Rather, it was an internal decapitation in which the kid’s head and neck were pulled apart from his spinal column due to the force of the collision. Alphr reports that after the car accident that also involved Jason’s mum Raylea and 9-year-old sister who suffered abdominal injuries, the young boy was flown to Brisbane where he was placed under the care of Dr Geoff Askin, a spinal surgeon.

Surgeons reattached Jason’s vertebrae using a small piece of wire and some of the kid’s rib to graft it back together in a six-hour surgery. After two weeks, Jason could walk and laugh again. Askin said most victims of the same injury would not survive it, and those who do run the risk of paralysis or difficulty breathing.

However, Jason is on the road to full recovery, and in eight weeks, his head brace would be removed. The brace keeps the baby’s body stable while it heals from the strain caused by the internal decapitation, reports TechTimes.

But Jason’s case is different from the planned head transplant procedure by Italian surgeon Dr Sergio Canavero on a Russian man with a congenital ailment. In Jason’s case, existing spinal tissues were grafted, while in the planned transplant scheduled in December 2017, it would involve connecting two unrelated spinal cords.

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