Kaylee Malone, 31, was mowing her lawn on Friday, June 13, with her nine-month-old son, in a carrier on her back.

She was only three feet away from her shed when she heard a “loud and aggressive” noise coming from her lawn mower.

Kaylee checked to see what she had hit, but it was only when she looked down at her left leg that she clocked a giant metal spike piercing through her calf that she couldn’t feel.

With her little boy still on her back, she managed to walk 150 feet across her yard to call 911.

Once the paramedics arrived, Kaylee was rushed to hospital where she had an hour and a half operation to remove the metal spike.

Thankfully, the spike didn’t hit any bones, but Kaylee does have nerve damage and was able to walk out of the hospital later that day.

Kaylee returned to the hospital to collect the spike, which she hung up in her garage, and is selling t-shirts of her x-ray to help pay for her medical bills.

Kaylee, a deck hand and student, from Destin, Florida, said: “When I went to pick up the spike, all the medical staff looked at me with huge eyes thinking ‘how did that not hurt you more?’.

“I’ve been told that I’m very fortunate, you can be blessed even when you get impaled.

“I’m hanging the spike up in my garage. I don’t want it in my house or my yard.

“I’ve also made t-shirts with my x-ray on them, which I’m selling to help pay for my medical bills.”

On June 13, 2025, Kaylee noticed that the grass on her lawn had shot up by a foot due to recent storms.

She decided to go and cut it herself and popped her son on her back in a carrier while she was doing it.

On June 13, 2025, Kaylee noticed that the grass on her lawn had shot up by a foot due to recent storms.

Kaylee said: “I put my baby on my back, he loves the sound of the lawn mower.

“I had cranked it up, went forwards, backwards and forwards again.

“Less than five minutes into mowing, it made a loud and aggressive sound.

“The mower turned off, as it turned off, I wondered what I hit, I was scanning my yard for a rock or a ball.”

While she was searching, Kaylee noticed the lawn mower had hit a spike that was in her tall grass.

The spike was lodged into Kaylee’s left leg, which she didn’t feel.

She said: “As I’m looking around, I look down at my left leg and there is a big metal spike in there.