3-year-old boy shoots self in head and survives

When 3-year-old Darnal Mundy II grabbed a gun in his home and accidentally shot himself in the head, his parents thought he wouldn't survive. However, after weeks of intensive therapy, Darnal is now talking, walking and slowly regaining control of the right side of his body.

The small wheelchair that holds his body and the scars on his head and face are constant reminders of the .morning he nearly lost his life

 she narrated the story;

"I just saw him laying on the ground, and then his dad jumped out of bed, and I just kept saying, 'My baby, my baby'," recalled Jean. Darnal's father placed his hand on the back of his son's head, applying pressure. "I didn't know where the bullet went through," said Jean. She grabbed her cell phone and keys and drove as fast as she could to Holtz Children's Hospital while Darnal's father held the boy.

"My son was crying. Throughout the whole experience he was crying," said Jean. "I just kept talking to him while driving."

 Dr. Sarah Jernigan, a University of Miami pediatric neurosurgeon at Holtz who operated on Darnal said:

"He had a gunshot wound to the center of his head and the bullet had exited in the back left side,". "His CAT scan showed a large blood clot and swelling in the brain."

 Doctors surgically removed the left side of Darnal's skull to allow for swelling and to protect the part of the brain that was untouched by the bullet.
"When I walked out of surgery and talked to his mom, I was able to tell his mom and dad that he was alive, but I wasn't sure what kind of recovery he would make