4" Nail in his head... and didn't know it?!?!?

[Kirby]

How could you possibly not know that this happened to you?!?!?!!?!?!?!?

From CNN - http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/16/nailgun.accident.ap/?section=cnn_topstories

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.

 

[MrElussive]

Lol, wtf??? There is also the news article about the construction worker who was shot in the head, but the bullet was lodged in one position of his brain that didn't affect him at all and he didn't feel the pain, either. Weird stuff, huh?

 

[frolf]

happens to me alllllllllll the time.

 

[Kirby]

I just saw this on the local news on TV. They had him and his wife on TV. She held up the nail. What was really odd/suspicious is that she held up a regular steel nail with a full round head. That's odd because every nail gun I have ever seen or used (i.e. Senco) use a special magazine style "clip" of nails that have clipped, not round, heads. Makes you wonder......

 

[gizzy]

I just saw this on the local news on TV. They had him and his wife on TV. She held up the nail. What was really odd/suspicious is that she held up a regular steel nail with a full round head. That's odd because every nail gun I have ever seen or used (i.e. Senco) use a special magazine style "clip" of nails that have clipped, not round, heads. Makes you wonder......

The nail guns that use the round head usually use a round cylinder (think tommy gun) to contain the nails and they are held together by plastic in a long roll. Here is a picture of one that holds a smaller amount of nails with a strait feed.

 

[aNoodle]

$80,000-$100,000 in doctors bills and no insurance?!? How do doctors and hospitals make up these figures? Ummm...that a house for many people. Since he hardly noticed it go in, jeez, I'm sure it would have worked itself out over time....kinda like a splinter...hehehe

 

[Tom]

That's amazing, glad he wasn't hurt.

 

[Big Daddy]

He, his dentist and his wife were just onTV, I am amazed, ouch that must hurt!

 

[Kirby]

Thanks gizzy, I never saw that type of nail gun before.

 

[gizzy]

Thanks gizzy, I never saw that type of nail gun before.

The ones they used when building my house use the drum feed that I mentioned before. The one pictured looks like it is air or electric, but the ones my builder was using a gun powder charge (comes on a little strip) that is used to drive the nail in.

 

[Dave8812]

wow....

 

[Militant-Grunt]

happens to me alllllllllll the time.

That explains a lot. =D

 

[tool fan]

Immmmmmpossible, how could you feesably bury a 16 penny nail through the roof of your mouth and not know it? My pops, a number of years ago put one through his knee......believe me....the ENTIRE nieghborhood heard him scream. I think this is a bullshit story. But then I may be wrong.

 

[Kirby]

The only explanation I can think of is either he's one of those people that feels no pain, but most of them die young, or he was on prescription or illegal medication for pain.

My wife is detoxing one of her clinic patients right now, she was on 26 Vicodin a day for "chronic pain", and it was actually a legal prescription by another doctor!?!?!?!? She told my wife that this week is the first time in years should could think clearly and actually felt ANY sensation in most of her body.

 

[epj3]

The only explanation I can think of is either he's one of those people that feels no pain, but most of them die young, or he was on prescription or illegal medication for pain.

My wife is detoxing one of her clinic patients right now, she was on 26 Vicodin a day for "chronic pain", and it was actually a legal prescription by another doctor!?!?!?!? She told my wife that this week is the first time in years should could think clearly and actually felt ANY sensation in most of her body.

damn, no wonder there is such a problem with malpractice insurance in PA.