odd news: guy survives 5" blade in skull

[NeoNSX]

This was just too freaky not to share.
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<I>Hospital staff treating a retired school teacher for a headache found a five inch knife blade wedged in his head.


The discovery was made after doctors X-rayed Leonard Woronowicz to see if he had cracked his skull in a fall while climbing over a stool in his kitchen four days earlier. Instead they found a blade that had penetrated the 61-year-old's head just below his right ear. It had snapped off at the handle without touching any major blood vessels or nerves - or causing any lasting damage.</I>

 

[Briank]

Something looks fishy with that x-ray. You can see details of the bone in the image of the knife. Any x-ray I have seen with metal the metal shows up as a solid image. Any radiologists out there?

 

[ChopsJazz]

This has got to be quite an embarassment to someone who otherwise shows no other signs of brain trauma. Is this guy using so little of his brain that he can hack away at it with a knife with no adverse affects?

 

[NSXrunner]

Saw a short blurb on this on channel 11 news. Strange indeed.

 

[peiserg]

ahh, no big deal. I remember the story of some guy in the late 1800's who got a railroad spike through his brain.. all the way from top to bottom. I think it went in through his chin and came out between the two hemispheres or something. What makes that more unique is that there was no such thing as neurosurgery, blood transfusions, or ANTIBIOTICS... and i would guess that a railroad spike has a few bugs growing on it..

while he made a "full" recovery, his personality was dramatically different after the incident. he went from a very mild mannered person to very belligerent. Guess it got the inhibitory lobe?