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former beauty queen was shocked as she awoke to find a portion of her
head missing after having a quarter of her skull removed and then stored
in her stomach for six weeks after a near-fatal fishing accident.
Surgeons
removed the rear quarter of Jamie Hilton's skull and placed it in her
abdomen, which enabled the bone to remain sterile and nourished while
brain swelling from a head injury subsided.
Mrs.
Hilton, 36, had won Mrs. Idaho in 2009 and competed in the Mrs. America
beauty contests. Mrs Hilton's skull remained in her abdomen for 42 days
until it was re-attached in a successful operation and then, three
months after her near death experience, she returned home, and is
considered a 'walking miracle.'
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