January 17, 2005

• And at the other end of the, er, scale, X-rays of Rectal Foreign Bodies.
• PhineasGagefilter.
• This is the bit that freaks me out. "This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realize the nail had been imbedded in their skull," neurosurgeon Sean Markey told KUSA-TV in Denver. "But it's a pretty rare injury." The second incident? Just at that hospital? Also unaware? WTF??
• Yikes! How do you not notice a four inch nail penetrating your head?
• Endorphins. Plus, it's very quick and likely no bleeding, if they didn't notice it. After that, it's likely just a dull ache, with increasing sharpness. Mind you, I hope I would notice if I nailed myself in the skull.
• It's not a nail - it's a creative piercing.
• "He's the luckiest guy, ever." Maybe second luckiest. This guy still gets my vote for luckiest.
• hey mexican.. doesn't he have both front teeth in the first photo?
• This also hattened to me oince wif luppily no lasping dambage.
• Plus, you know, he had a nail in his brain.
• I wondered about that, too. The first photo looks like an after picture with a new fake tooth, the fake tooth being a slightly different color than the surrounding teeth.
• I consider stuff like this a good argument for using HAMMERS. I'd rather smash my thumb than nail my skull any day.
• Despite his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $80,000 and $100,000, Katerina Lawler said her husband is in good spirits. Wait a few weeks until the $140,000 bill from the anesthesiologist, the $48,000 charge from the pharmacy, and $66,000 bill for lab work shows up in the mail.
• The thing I can't figure out is how the nail got into his head at that angle. From the x-ray, it looks like he'd have to have his mouth wide open and his head tilted back for the nail to go into the roof of his mouth without leaving a big hole in the cheek or tongue.
• First guess: he had a cold and was breathing through his mouth? Second guess: he likes to sing while he works? Known folk to do this especially in noisier occupations, do it myself sometimes, especially when using the damn chainsaw. Third guess: he spoke ill of Chthulhu?
• I've used nailguns extensively in building (thank god I never have to go back to that job). A mate accidentally nailed thru his foot when he slipped off a roof. Nailgun fell onto his foot nozzle-end first and discharged. He didn't know he had a nail thru his foot until he picked himself off the ground (it was only a bungalow and sand at the bottom - he was lucky in both ways). Blood was pissing everywhere & he looks down & says "oh, I've nailed thru me fuckin foot!" - he had to see it before it registered. Just goes to show.
• "The doctors said, 'If you're going to have a nail in the brain, that's the way you want it to be,"' Now.... who thought the word "want" could be in this sentence?
• Firing nailguns at full beer cans while drunk is sort of amusing, especially if you shake the tinnies up first.
• The thing I can't figure out is how the nail got into his head at that angle. From the x-ray, it looks like he'd have to have his mouth wide open and his head tilted back for the nail to go into the roof of his mouth without leaving a big hole in the cheek or tongue. Also, for the gun to have backfired, shouldn't the nail be facing the other way? "He's the luckiest guy, ever." I think he'd be luckier not to have the nail in the brain and quarter-million-dollar hospital bill.
• I think he'd be luckier not to have the nail in the brain and quarter-million-dollar hospital bill. Oh, you're just jealous because you don't have a nail in your head. Don't worry -- luck will turn your way.
• Wait a few weeks until the $140,000 bill from the anesthesiologist, the $48,000 charge from the pharmacy, and $66,000 bill for lab work shows up in the mail. No worries; he can sue the nailgun producer, and sell his story to Hollywood. I might nail my brain just to get rich.
• Oh, and the nail is to one side of his face (it is behind one eye). It isn't going through his palate.
• Maybe he fell afoul of Dinsdale Piranha ... "Well one day I was at home threatening the kids when I looks out through the hole in the wall and sees this tank pull up and out gets one of Dinsdale's boys, so he comes in nice and friendly and says Dinsdale wants to have a word with me, so he chains me to the back of the tank and takes me for a scrape round to Dinsdale's place and Dinsdale's there in the conversation pit with Doug and Charles Paisley, the baby crusher, and two film producers and a man they called 'Kierkegaard', who just sat there biting the heads of whippets and Dinsdale says 'I hear you've been a naughty boy Clement' and he splits me nostrils open and saws me leg off and pulls me liver out and I tell him my name's not Clement and then... he loses his temper and nails me head to the floor."