Think you had a bad week?
A Breckenridge man, who builds custom homes, was suffering from headaches and dizziness after an accident with a nail gun on a job site. He thought the nail gun had malfunctioned and popped him in the mouth.
"The nail gun had recoiled, and it must have recoiled at a high turbulence, flipped 180 degrees and somehow shot or angled the nail through the front of my lip," Lawler said. "For six days we were icing it and taking Advil, thinking I got hit real hard, like a punch."
Well, kinda. After going to the dentist and getting x-rays for a supposed toothache, his wife called him with the news: "There's a nail inside your brain." The 3 1/4-inch nail entered through his upper right lip lodgingjust inside the front part of his brain. It missed his right eye by millimeters. Here's the rub, this was SIX days later. He had been walking around with a nail lodged in his head for six days.
Maybe I have brain freeze, but I haven't had any Kwik-e-Mart Squishys. Hmmmm.
What the hell is that ringing noise?
Please turn off the microwave, my teeth are rattling.
Honey, everything I eat tastes a little like metal.
Doctors at a local Littleton hospital thankfully and dumbfoundedly have experience with this. Believe it or not, this is not the first time a man has unknowingly had a nail lodged in his head and come in for treatment. "This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been imbedded in their skull," said Dr. Sean Markey. "But it's a pretty rare injury."
A team of surgeons performed brain surgery and were able to take the nail out without brain damage or loss of sight. A difficult task indeed, of course maybe that wouldn't have mattered that much concerning this guy.
After recovery, Patrick Lawler commented on his ordeal: "It definitely makes one think about a profession change, you know? I don't know. I might use a smaller (nail) gun.
"Or maybe I'll stick to hammers."
Patrick, you can have mine man!
"The nail gun had recoiled, and it must have recoiled at a high turbulence, flipped 180 degrees and somehow shot or angled the nail through the front of my lip," Lawler said. "For six days we were icing it and taking Advil, thinking I got hit real hard, like a punch."
Well, kinda. After going to the dentist and getting x-rays for a supposed toothache, his wife called him with the news: "There's a nail inside your brain." The 3 1/4-inch nail entered through his upper right lip lodgingjust inside the front part of his brain. It missed his right eye by millimeters. Here's the rub, this was SIX days later. He had been walking around with a nail lodged in his head for six days.
Maybe I have brain freeze, but I haven't had any Kwik-e-Mart Squishys. Hmmmm.
What the hell is that ringing noise?
Please turn off the microwave, my teeth are rattling.
Honey, everything I eat tastes a little like metal.
Doctors at a local Littleton hospital thankfully and dumbfoundedly have experience with this. Believe it or not, this is not the first time a man has unknowingly had a nail lodged in his head and come in for treatment. "This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been imbedded in their skull," said Dr. Sean Markey. "But it's a pretty rare injury."
A team of surgeons performed brain surgery and were able to take the nail out without brain damage or loss of sight. A difficult task indeed, of course maybe that wouldn't have mattered that much concerning this guy.
After recovery, Patrick Lawler commented on his ordeal: "It definitely makes one think about a profession change, you know? I don't know. I might use a smaller (nail) gun.
"Or maybe I'll stick to hammers."
Patrick, you can have mine man!
posted by Michael St. James at 1:05 PM
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