While her baby boy is miraculously healing after his 11-story fall last month, the mother may be haunted by nightmares over the incident for quite some time.
16-month old Musa Dayib fell from the balcony of the family's Riverside Plaza apartment in Minnesota last month, sustaining a broken spine and ribs, a punctured lung and a concussion.
After spending most of the last month after the May 11 incident in critical condition, doctors are claiming the boy is now doing well, as one of his casts has even been removed, and he is now back home in the apartment, the door to the balcony presumable locked.
Musa Dayib's mom, Fadumo Abdullahi, was moved and relieved enough to say through and interpreter, "He is the same way that he was before. This is something beyond comprehension."
However, she added that the ordeal has left scars beyond the ones visible on Musa's body. She has revealed that she is having disturbing nightmares over the incident during which she can hear her son cry, "Mommy, come help me."
Abdullahi was running errands and her son was in the care of his father when the fall occurred. He was watching both Musa Dayib and his older sister. As he exited the room they were in for a moment, the boy crawled to the balcony, slipped through bars surrounding it and plummeted 11 stories to the ground.
Doctors who cared for the child at the Hennepin County Medical Center in Minnesota had explained how an adult who suffered a fall such as this would have likely died but a toddler's body is more flexible and pliable and that played a huge role in this boy's survival.
According to child safety research group Childalert, accidents involving young children in the home are common as over 500,000 under the age of 4 are injured in the home every year. Almost 40 percent of those accidents occur from falling and 10 children die each year from falling through a window or off a balcony. Over 35,000 children under the age of 4 fall down the stairs each year as well.
As you might expect, a move to lower level apartment unit is in the future for the Abdullahi's as soon as one opens up.
