Xray from the procedure.
Posted on 08/06/2007 9:48:48 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia
BERLIN - A 59-year-old German woman has had most of a pencil removed from inside her head after suffering nearly her whole life with the headaches and nosebleeds it caused, Bild newspaper reported on Monday.
Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.
“The pencil went right through my skin — and disappeared into my head,” Wegner told the newspaper.
It narrowly missed vital parts of her brain.
At the time no one dared operate, but now technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able to remove it.
The majority of the pencil, some 3.1 inches long, was taken out in an operation at a private Berlin clinic, but the tip had grown in so firmly that it was impossible to remove.
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Sometimes you just can’t make stuff like this up!
Imagine all the jokes if it got stuck in her neck.
Now, if it had gotten stuck in her nether regions...
As teacher always said, it’s funny until someone puts an eye out.
Did her intelligence skyrocket like Homer Simpson’s?
It would have brought a whole new meaning to the term pencil necked geek
I guess you could say she “got the lead out”
Xray from the procedure.
I wish someone would dislodge that pen from Hannity’s hand!
Beat me to it!
I don't know why but I thought of this.
A woman came in for treatment of a bloody nose (with her infant) and wanted help getting a restraining order against her boyfriend.
When asked why she needed the restraining order, she said "because he shoved a straw up my nose".
Curious about the choice of weapon, she was asked about why a straw was used for the attack.
She responded "because I was doing his coke with it at the time".
True story.
What’s the point?
Will she still be able to make Number 2?
LOL...Homer and the crayon.
I’m amazed she die from an infection.
I saw that movie.
I think.
Sorta, kinda, maybe. Uh, I don't really remember...
Say what?!
I had half of a chicken wishbone stuck in my throat and had to go into surgery to have it removed. I got sick of the same joke over and over, as doctors, nurses, hospital staff, friends and family all found they could't resist asking me, "Did you get your wish?"
subtle. (heh,heh,heh...)
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