You wouldn't believe this. Read it. The next time you have another bad recurring headache, think! Did something -- anything -- pierce through your head when you were a child?
Read the Reuters story:
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 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.
Most of the pencil, some three 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.
2 comments:
Eva,
I don't have a pencil or anything sharp in my head, and I have headaches sometimes.. And reading about her has made my head go really whirly.
Sheeeesh.... unbelievable! WOuldnt a person die from this?
witch,
i know what you mean. So amazing that she survived...
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