Mum cheats death after falling off ladder and impaling herself on metal rod

mirror.co.uk:

A mum miraculously cheated death after falling from a ladder and getting impaled on a metal rod. Sharon Stone, 51, was on a ladder stripping wallpaper when she lost her balance and plunged from the fifth rung approximately five feet to the ground.

She landed back-first on an upright metal rod that was part of a dismantled shoe rack. It punctured her skin and shot just centimetres passed her heart.

Mum-of-one Sharon said the pain was "agonising" and added she was pleading with her ex-husband, who was in the house at the time of the incident, "please don’t let me die".

An ambulance attended the property in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, but paramedics were not able to remove the rod because it had entered too far.