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Nail embedded in man's skull for 6 days
Monday, January 17, 2005 Posted: 7:48 AM EST (1248 GMT) LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) -- 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. Following the accident, Lawler had what he thought was a minor toothache and blurry vision. On Wednesday, after painkillers and ice didn't ease the pain, he went to a dental office where his wife, Katerina, works. "We all are friends, so I thought the (dentists) were joking ... then the doctor came out and said 'There's really a nail,"' Katerina Lawler said. "Patrick just broke down. I mean, he had been eating ice cream to help the swelling." He was taken to a suburban Denver hospital, where he underwent a four-hour surgery. The nail had plunged 1 1/2 inches (4 centimeters) into his brain, barely missing his right eye, Metcalse said. "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." Lawler was recovering Sunday in the hospital, where he was expected to spend several more days. Despite his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $80,000 and $100,000, Katerina Lawler said her husband is in good spirits. "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."
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01-17-2005, 07:54 AM | #2 |
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How do you not feel a nail going through your mouth?
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01-17-2005, 08:21 AM | #3 | |
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01-17-2005, 08:46 AM | #4 |
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Hey, Littleton! I used to live right next to there!
Lucky, lucky SOB to still be alive...
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01-17-2005, 08:58 AM | #5 |
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Doesn't he get some sort of worker's comp benefit for an on-the-job injury?
It would suck for him to be stuck holding the bag on those bills... |
01-17-2005, 09:02 AM | #6 |
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I still can't figure out how the second nail went all up in him.
He's pointing the gun at the wood, fires and another nail comes shooting out the ass of the gun or something? Bueller?
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01-17-2005, 09:03 AM | #7 |
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"Lucky" is so relative here.
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01-17-2005, 10:50 AM | #8 |
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I thought Seal was the luckiest guy alive?
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01-17-2005, 10:56 AM | #9 |
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I wonder what I have embedded in my skull?
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01-17-2005, 10:58 AM | #10 | |
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01-17-2005, 11:30 AM | #11 | |
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Well, that is how it would get imbedded isn't it?
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01-17-2005, 12:02 PM | #12 |
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Thew guy on the local news pulled a George Costanza
"A man survives unknowingly having a nail in his head for 6 days... ouch, that's gotta hurt." |
01-17-2005, 12:07 PM | #13 |
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I don't know about lucky. The guy working next to him that the nail missed is a lucky man. Whoever wins the lotto is lucky. Having a nail fly out of a nail gun and imbed itself in your brain is not lucky to me. I would say this man is very fortunate just to be alive.
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01-17-2005, 12:42 PM | #14 |
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bobcat goldthwait is a lucky man.
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01-17-2005, 12:47 PM | #15 |
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I read the title and the first sentence of this thread and wondered how the hell he was lucky.
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01-17-2005, 01:51 PM | #16 | |
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01-17-2005, 09:39 PM | #17 |
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"How's that, uh, thing feeling?"
"Terrific. The nail comes out next week." "Well, you hardly even notice it." |
01-18-2005, 01:19 AM | #18 | |
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01-18-2005, 01:43 AM | #19 |
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Lucky -- that he's not dead.
Terribly unlucky -- that he got a nail in the head. Terribly unlucky -- that he has no insurance. Terribly unlucky -- that he didn't get to report the injury when it happened, and therefore forfeits any worker's compensation (I believe that's how it works -- very unsure though. Since worker's comp wasn't mentioned, I'd assume that he somehow cannot claim it). Like Quik said -- such a relative thing.
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01-18-2005, 01:46 AM | #20 |
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he may wish that thing killed him by the end of this.
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