Boy impaled after crashing through glass door

A 5-year-old boy was impaled on two jagged shards of glass after jumping though a closed ranch slider at his great grandmother's home.
Following emergency surgery at Tauranga Hospital, Kees Nienkemper has made a "remarkable" recovery and his mother, Michele Nienkemper, has warned other parents to install safety in their homes.
Kees was with family visiting his great grandmother in Te Puke when the accident happened about 9pm on Friday night.
Mrs Nienkemper said Kees jumped over the welcome door mat through what he thought was an open doorway.
Like any 5-year-old boy, Kees was in a hurry at the time.
"He can't walk anywhere, it's run everywhere, that sort of stuff," she said.
The ranch slider was plain clear plate glass and after smashing through it, Kees stopped with his feet and finger tips on the floor, bent over the two pieces of glass embedded deeply into his body.
Mrs Nienkemper said her mother carefully lifted Kees up off the glass and wrapped him in a towel to stop the bleeding while she called emergency services.
"I just went into shock really."
It took an ambulance only seven minutes to get to the house but even that time seemed too long.
"We were ringing them back before they arrived because he was turning grey," Mrs Nienkemper said.
At the hospital, Kees had surgery to check what internal injuries the glass had caused and clean the wounds of any pieces.
 The surgeons found no glass inside her son and the shards of glass had narrowly missed all his major organs. Kees also has minor cuts to his arm and leg.
 Mrs Nienkemper described her son's recovery as "remarkable" and by yesterday he was already off the morphine.
"He's been very brave," she said.
The family, who were visiting from Whangaparaoa, about 25km north of Auckland, were due to return home on Sunday.
But instead Mrs Nienkemper and her husband Marc have spent the last few nights taking shifts being by their son's bedside.
"One stays the night while the other stays in a motel down the road," she said.
Since the accident, the ranch slider door has been replaced with laminated safety glass that shatters into small pieces, similar to a car windscreen.
The door also has a black line across the middle of it, making it easier to see.
Mrs Nienkemper said if Kees was eating well, he may be able to return home to Whangaparoa today.