Umm...wow...

PORTLAND, Oregon (AP) -- An Oregon man who went to a hospital complaining of a headache was found to have 12 nails embedded in his skull from a suicide attempt with a nail gun, doctors say.

Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill, and the man survived with no serious lasting effects, according to a report on the medical oddity in the current issue of the Journal of Neurosurgery.

The unidentified 33-year-old man was suicidal and high on methamphetamine last year when he fired the nails -- up to 2 inches in length -- into his head one by one.

The nails were not visible when doctors first examined the man in the emergency room of an unidentified Oregon hospital a day later. Doctors were surprised when X-rays revealed six nails clustered between his right eye and ear, two below his right ear and four on the left side of his head.

The study did not say how long the nails were, and a hospital spokeswoman refused to release that information. A photo published in the study suggests the nails range from 1 1/2 to 2 inches long.

No one before is known to have survived after intentionally firing so many foreign objects into the head, according to the report, written by Dr. G. Alexander West, the neurosurgeon who oversaw the treatment of the patient.

The man at first told doctors he had had a nail gun accident, but later admitted it was a suicide attempt.

The nails came close to major blood vessels and the brain stem but did not pierce them. The patient was in remarkably good condition when he was transferred to Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, where the nails were removed.

The patient was later transferred to psychiatric care and stayed under court order for nearly a month before leaving against doctors' orders.

http://edition.cnn.com/2006/US/04/21....ap/index.html

If that would have been here the dude would still have the nails in his head.

He would have went in for a headache.
The ER doctor would have said "you are only here for narcotics go home"
And he'd have to wait till the nails rusted out on his own.

No one before is known to have survived after intentionally firing so many foreign objects into the head... so whats that a gennis world record now or something. I think ill go take 12 hits of acid and see if i can beat him

Yeah umm... that's really umm... a bad idea.

Now anyone who works in medicine will tell you: Nothing bleeds like the scalp!

So, unless this character had hair down to his rear-end, or cleaned up very, very well after the incident, he was never even see by a doctor (at least a competent one) before having this study done...

Also, if a doctor ever decides to have you go get skull x-rays for a headache, leave immediately. That practice was stopped in the early 70s and has absolutely no buisness in modern medicine.