Mom plucking berries for kid impales her arm on fence

She didn’t quite make it ‘round the mulberry bush.

Turkish mother Ceyda Oruk endured excruciating pain when she was stabbed in the arm by the iron spikes of a fence she was trying to hop to get to a mulberry bush – all while her shocked 5-year-daughter looked on.

“It was agony, but I couldn’t scream because it didn’t want to scare my daughter any more than she already was,” Oruk said. “I try to be brave and told her not to worry, and managed to get my mobile phone and call for help.”

The 35-year-old mother waited 20 harrowing minutes for assistance to arrive – and when it finally did, rescue workers decided it was too dangerous to free her arm from the fence just then. Instead, they cut out a section of the railing and sent her to the hospital in an ambulance with the spikes still stuck in her upper arm.

The accident happened while Oruk and her daughter were strolling down a street in the Turkish city of Adana. When the little girl who “really likes” mulberries asked her mom to grab a bunch from a bush she spotted, Oruk obliged.

 

“All the ones that you could reach from the road had been grabbed, but I realised if I hopped over the fence I could probably grab a handful to keep her happy,” she said. “But the bars were really close together and I slipped, and suddenly found myself impaled on the spikes.

As they waited for rescuers to show up, teaching staff from the school in the Ismail Safa Ozler Anadolu Lisesi neighbourhood where the fence was located, comforted the child and reassured her that her mom would be be alright.

The spiky posts were finally removed from Oruk’s arm at the hospital, where she remains in good health, according to her doctors. She’s doing so well that she’ll likely be released within 24 hours.