Ill. man in joking mood despite nail in brain

[Steely Dan]

http://news.yahoo.com/ill-man-joking-mood-despite-nail-brain-214046828.html


OAK LAWN, Ill. (AP) — Gail Glaenzer still can't believe that her fiancé unknowingly shot a nail into his skull, let alone that he posted a picture of the X-ray on Facebook during his ambulance ride between hospitals for surgery.

But she was joking about the circumstances Friday, a day after doctors successfully removed the 3 ¼-inch nail from Dante Autullo's brain.

"Dante says, 'I want it to make a necklace out of it,'" Glaenzer said....

 

[bessie]

Another one?! What's up with that? This is the story from 2005 about a guy who thought he had a toothache. :doh:

A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth: a four-inch nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6833176...t/man-survives--inch-nail-skull/#.TxqX6fkpqSo

 

[Donjeta]

Bessie's article says the 2005 incident was the second time it happened in the same Denver hospital.

 

[Steely Dan]

I'm glad I don't own a nail gun. I need a nail in my brain like I need another hole in the head. :banghead: <---- Me trying to dislodge the nail if it ever happens to me.

 

[gitana1]

I really don't get how that happens. Can't they feel it going in?

 

[Elphaba]

My first glance at the X-ray pic and I swear my brain thought "Homer Simpson" and "DOH!"