European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 18, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To your health one in a by Arthur h. Rotstein associated press Justin Stiner who used to have the ascending inclinations of spider Man does no to climb anything nowadays. No Trees no Walls. Especially he s. Sworn off  Terra Firma for this 9-year-old in Sierra Vista Ariz. That s understandable for someone who fell off a roof. A and spiked himself through the heart and  on a 4-foot steel Rod Millimetres away from sudden death. Survival was amazing. His Story. R. A strapped to a Board with the threaded Rod inside him he was helicopter red 75 Miles from one Hospital to another not bleeding a drop during the 3 at hours he was impaled. A on Awakening from open heart surgery in which the pole was unscrewed from his heart he asked to play Nintendo. A he went Home Only four Days later. Quot one in a billion Quot one of his surgeons or. Phillip Richemont said after the operation on nov. 12. A the third grader took no pain medication after his third Day in Post surgery. He missed Only seven Days of school. Quot they kept telling me a it does t work like this usually Quot said his Mother Amanda Stiner. Quot the doctor told me a you can take him Home. There s nothing we can do for him. Here that you can t do for him at Home Quot a there was a scare or two. Richemont recalls talking to Stiner a week after Justin s release and learning he was a Aback to Evel Mevel Quot sliding Down the Stair rail. That activity was quickly stopped and Justin faced restrictions at school until january. Books and game boy action substituted for outdoor recesses. There was no physical education. The experience and the scarring on his Chest and neck have made Justin a self conscious and his mom said Quot a Little cocky too like i can go through anything now Quot the ordeal certainly put his family on what she Calls Quot a roller coaster of  they were already trying to Deal with his single mothers joblessness his Grandfather s serious illness and his aunts and Uncle s military duty in saudi Arabia a a. Quot he s real sensitive now Quot Stiner said Quot before he was teat quiet to was really rambunctious but he was pretty quiet. Now you can t shut him up any More he talks All the time Quot i. A. A a. A a Quot. Well not around reporters. Or doctors. It s always like pulling Teeth to get  talk Quot said Richemont who is completing a residency in trauma. Surgery at the University of arizon Aask the 4-foot-10, 86-Pound youngster if ties tired of. Being grilled by ice enters and you got a Grunt in the / affirmative a a a. A a.,. A a ask turn it tie thinks a Tot about ins Accident and he half. Shrugs   ask him in it bothers him and you get . A a a he won t talk about it to anybody  ins Mother. Quot he just says. I loll a. /. I Don t think tie Realises what really happened. And i be nod to explain it to turn Quot Stic said she thinks he views it a As Quot of i fell it s Over  Stine said Justin was and want a daredevil be foil his Accident. A whatever he wanted to do tic pretty much did it  to climb. He was always climbing. Ever since he a been a baby learning to walk,.he s climbed and now you can t even joke with him about climbing Quot but Back on veterans Day it was , Mother recall boy s survival after Rod pierces heart Justin Stiner visits with a classmate at Carmichael elementary school in Sierra Vista Ariz. Justin then 8, was playing at the Home of George and Gertrude Howard,.grandparents of a Friend he decided to climb onto the roof in the Yard threaded steel poles stuck out of the ground staking Howard s Gardenias. Justin slipped later telling doctors Quot it was like falling in slow motion Quot and became a Cushion for a massive pin. A one of the half Inch thick rods broke his fall. With his feet pointed toward the ground the. Rod plunged into his Abdomen above his Navel and below his a a breastbone. The Rod Loro its Way through the Bottom of his hearts right ventricle exiting through the top of that. Quot chamber skimming within Millimetres Over the Aorta and. Pulmonary arteries had it pierced either he would have bled to death in minutes. It slammed through tie thymus gland and rip Jeci the right Interior jugular vein diagonally severing it. It skimmed off the carotid artery but did not leave his neck. Justin dangled on the pole about 2 feet off the ground for about 20 minutes before Sierra Vista paramedics snipped off a portion of the Rod without disturbing the 18-Inch Section inside ins body. The boy was awake and Alert the whole time. He did not cry.  he was kind of Shook up but we were Able to Calm i. Down and he was just fabulous All the rest of the Way Quot said Sierra Vista fire department paramedic Larry v Townsend. Quot he was scared and it Hurt there was no. Doubt about it but the Are  talking , asking us t please pull it out. He never went into . Richemont remembers Justin being  i a ,. Like a Ohhi there s a Rod in my Chest and surely you Gonna take it out right he was , truly  he had the feeling that the boy Quot was t thinking i m Gonna  he s thinking Man. Moms Gonna really. Get mad at me for this  a a. Justin a sister Nicole. .12,-inside the House when he for was neatly a Basket Case a and suffered nightmares afterwards. So was their Mother who had been in Tucson at the time and arrived at the How aids House to pick up her children Only to learn that Justin had fallen on a Rod and had been taken to a Sierra Vista Hospital. There she Learned he had been flown to Tucson. As friends drove her Back to Tucson they kept talking trying to Calm her. Justin s surgery began 10 minutes Page 14 a the stars and stripes tues