Man complains of headache after driving a 12-cm nail into his head

Pravda ^ | 06-03-2005 | Staff

[Red Badger]

A man called Yuri hammered a 12-cm nail into his head. He survived a ghastly experience

"The patient was brought to our hospital by ambulance, he was accompanied by his mother who told us that the man had a mental disorder and the nail had been driven into his head by himself," says Yuri Tanvel, a doctor with neurosurgical ward of a local hospital.

Mr. Tanvel has seen patients with various head injuries before. But he never saw a nail head sticking out of the cranium. The doctor was even more surprised to find the 37-year-old patient fully conscious. Without delay, the doctors began making urgent arrangements for an operation. They x-rayed the patient's head and saw the nail going deep into the brain. The man would have died from hemorrhage if he had removed the nail by himself. The doctors had to perform a trepanation while cauterizing blood vessels of the brain. Still, they could not prevent a significant blood loss.

The doctors removed the foreign body, fixed the cranium with clamps and put a few stitches. The patient seemed safe. However, the dirt from the nail remained inside the wound. The dirt could have caused anything from purulent encephalitis to meningitis. But Yuri got off lightly again. He was released from the hospital this week. His mother still shudders recalling the day of the incident.

She saw her son trying to insert a rusty nail into his head. Blood appeared on his head. She told him to stop hurting his head with that dirty nail. He seemed to get the message. He went to the store and bought a handful of clean nails the following day. The lady found him later lying on his bed, blood on the crown of his head. The man was complaining of headache. He was after some beer to relieve the pain. His mother look a closer look and went numb. A nail was sticking out of Yuri's head.

"Had that nail slipped a millimeter to the left or right, the guy would have been dead on the spot," say the neurosurgeons of the hospital. They believe it was a sheer miracle that no vital areas of the brain had been damaged by "foreign metallic body" that caused an oblique diametrical injury of the cranium and brain. They decided to keep the nail. In the meanwhile, their former patient sits on the porch of his house smiling. According to Yuri's mother, the man began acting strange after a dilapidated staircase fell on his head.

[Red Badger]

Don'tcha just hate it when that happens?.........Excedrin Headache #367.............

[Conservatrix]

Do it yourself lobotmy kit....

[Charles Henrickson]

He hit the nail on the head.

[Charles Henrickson]

some beer to relieve the pain.

Yuri: "I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

[Charles Henrickson]

says Yuri Tanvel, a doctor with neurosurgical ward

We'll call the other Yuri, "Yuri Anvil."

Or maybe "Yuri Advil."

[F.J. Mitchell]

Amazing, a numb skull registers pain.

[Red Badger]

lol!!!!!

[martin_fierro]

[scott says]

[sassbox]

he must have been really hammered....

[mmercier]

Ouch.

I have been shot seven times in 12 years, only the hands and wrist... Once in the arse, but by someone else from distance; also took a spun nail off the chest from someone else.. I follow these stories though, as I used to use a nail gun every day. I own three of them, they are the most effective tools of my trade other than the skill saw.

In a recent story from Massachusetts a carpenter got a 3 1/4 inch gun spike in between his upper rear molars, and did not realize it for a week. His dentist found it while checking out his toothache.

These horror stories abound in construction circles. I once saw a man nail his finger to a window sill and start to cry; his partner saw him and came to his aid; he fainted. We cut out the sill, and sent the crying carpenter to the ER with it. We also revived the fainter.

I got a job last year because a guy nailed his big toe to a staging plank.

I treat a nail gun like a loaded .22 pistol. They can hurt you, but probably will not kill you.

The last time I got shot I had to go to the ER with a subdural hematoma that ice would not stop; the doctor asked me "what is it with these nail guns, I do at least one carpenter a day...?"

It happens, but not if you are aware. You only get aware by popping yourself a few times.

Enough of these stories and they will want to ban them. Fine with me, I sell labor, by the hour.

[Rca2000]

Sound like another Darwin Award attempt to me.

[mmercier]

That looks like an attempted homicide. I saw a similar X-ray last year, I think a guy in California with five.

I have seen guns jump and fire multiple shots, nothing like that however, not even close. The nails are oriented at different angels, and too spaced out for an accident. Who knows for sure though.

[knews_hound]

And they say Carpenters are overpaid!

LOL

Cheers,

knews hound

http://knewshound.blogspot.com/

[George Stupidnopolis]

That x-ray in fact displayed the skull of Jacque Chirac after the EU (rhymes with "PU") vote

[Larry Lucido]

"I'd rather have a bottle in front of me than a frontal lobotomy."

I guess the corollary would be "I'd rather get nailed in bed than get embedded with a nail."

[Red Badger]

it was only 12 cm.........and he didn't even drive it all the way in!......

[Red Badger]

it was only 12 cm.........and he didn't even drive it all the way in!......