Tough nut tot Yuqi Lui has astonished medics with his miracle recovery from a nightmare accident that left a pair of razor sharp shears embedded next to his brain. Yuqi, four, had been cutting up traditional good luck scrolls with his family for a party at their remote village home in Erbozi, eastern China.

But he tripped as he was running to meet dad Tiancun from work and jammed the scissors straight through his eye as he slammed into the floor. Mum Fengshuang explained: “I heard him shout daddy and run out. I looked out the window expecting to see him come into view and then suddenly I heard him scream.

“It was a terrible high pitched wail and my heart leapt into my mouth. “I ran and when I got to him I saw the huge pair of scissors that he had been using to cut up the scrolls was jutting from his face.”

Yuqi’s parents borrowed a farm truck for an agonising ride around local hospitals seeking treatment for their stricken son. And after 17 hours on the road, surgeons at Beijing’s Capital Institute of Pediatrics at the Xiehe Hospital agreed to operate. X-rays showed the blades had only been stopped from reaching Yuqi’s brain when they were caught on his jawbone.

“After examining Yuqi the specialist surgeon Dr Zhao Jizhi came to see us and explained surgery was the only option - and it had to be done as soon as possible. “He told us that if the scissors had been pulled out when the accident happened our son would have died,” said mum Fengshuang.

Now Yuqi had made a full recovery from his ordeal after two weeks in hospital. “It cost us all the savings we had but it was worth it to get the sunshine back into our lives,” said his mum.

Speriamo bene, mi fa tanta tenerezza questo bimbo.

A four-year-old girl dubbed Two-Face by her playmates has had the second of two operations to save her from a lifetime of torment after her mum begged medics for help.

Half of little Tan-Jia’s face was covered with a huge dark birthmark while the other half was completely normal.

“It has been very hard for her because other children can be so cruel and call her names. To make it worse, she has a twin brother who was born completely normal.

“They used to call her Two Face from the Batman film and some said she had been touched by evil,” explained mum Shan Tan from Heilongjiang, northern China, who has to shave hair from her daughter’s birthmark twice a month.

Now the youngster has begun a series of facial reconstruction operations to remove the birthmark in sections and replace it with skin grafts from her tummy - with the second of three operations now complete.

Surgeons at Xinqiao Hospital, in Chongqing, central China, agreed to carry out the ops for free after desperate Shan Tan contacted them about her daughter’s plight.

Dr Lei Lang explained: “It’s very rare to see such a large and severe birthmark, but the patient can be cured through transplants of her own skin.

“After two phases of surgery, she will no longer have a birthmark on her face.

“Although she is a twin she and her brother developed from different embryos and we believe she has been suffering from a genetic mutation of her pigment cells.”

Now mum Shan Tan hopes her daughter’s nightmare will soon be over.

“I was reading her a fairytale about the ugly duckling and she asked me if she was an ugly duckling because everybody said she was ugly and laughed at her. It broke my heart.

“Now she has a chance to be normal,” she said.

A youngster dubbed turtle boy by cruel bullies is starting a new life after a miracle two hour operation to remove a giant shell of hard skin from his back.

Maimaiti Hali, eight - from Heping, northern China - was born with a hard, mutated growth covering most of his back.

Dad Maimaiti Musai said: “We were told surgery wasn’t possible when he was very young so we waited. But the growth got bigger and harder and became like a turtle shell.

“People bullied him and we were determined to end it. He is such a good and brave boy and he never complained. We are so glad that he is now on the mend.”

Medics at Urumqi Military General Hospital say they have cut away the growth and replaced it with skin grafts from Hali’s scalp and legs.

Chief surgeon Ye Xiangpo explained: “The skin we removed was as thick as a bull’s hide. We used scalp hair on the graft because it grows back very quickly. We expect him to make a full recovery.”

Hali added: “It was a bit painful, but I won’t worry about other kids laughing at me any more. I am looking forward to going out in the sun without my shirt on and to going swimming with my friends.”

Previously we talk about Tian Yunting, The Turtle Girl.

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