A man shot himself with his own nail gun – and didn’t realize what had happened for six days
“On Thursday night, a team of surgeons performed the six-hour operation. They cut open his skull to see exactly where the nail was. Then, they removed it through the path it went in, to minimize damaging other areas. Loss of sight, brain injury and death were possible outcomes.”
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my not being a physician, i am constantly amazed by how much the human body can endure, and how little it takes to harm it or destroy it.
this is a fascinating blog, thank you for sharing!
UPDATE: Looks like he’s going to try a new profession where the worst thing he’ll have to worry about is an errant pizza-cutter. Unfortunately, he’s going to have to lay down a lot of pepperoni and mozzarella to cover the medical bills:
http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/19/nailgun.accident.ap/index.html
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