By The Way...

Holy cow:

A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth -- a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.

A nail gun backfired on Lawler, 23, on January 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.

X-Ray picture is included with the link.

I'm of course appropriately amazed the guy was walking around for the better part of a week with a nail in his head. But, look: how do you miss something like that? I would like to think that if a 4-inch spike of metal had pierced my skull, I'd notice. I'm not blaming the guy, mind you -- I believe it's possible to miss it. I'd just hope I wouldn't. A nail in your brain is nothing to sneeze at.

Great line in the story:

"The doctors said, 'If you're going to have a nail in the brain, that's the way you want it to be,"' she said. "He's the luckiest guy, ever."

To the extent that one can be lucky while having a nail in one's brain, yes.

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• #1 Comment from justcherie 
  1/17/05 11:17 AM | Permalink

  Oh, this makes me shudder to think of...