Man discovers a knife blade lodged in his head

[Liberal_in_LA]

Man discovers a knife blade lodged in his head. It happens.

A Chinese man who suffered headaches for four years was found to have a knife embedded in his skull. He says he didn't know it was there and previous medical examinations failed to discover it.

If you have stabbing pains in the head, maybe it's because you were stabbed in the head.

That's what Li Fu, a Chinese man in Yunnan province found out when he visited the doctor complaining of splitting headaches: There was a broken-off 4-inch knife blade (now clearly rusted) in his skull (video below).

That blade had probably been stuck up there for four years; Li said that was when he was mugged by a robber. Back then, the blade wasn't found, even though he suffered from terrible headaches and bleeding out the mouth and ears.

Though it may seem unbelievable that he never noticed, and miraculous that he didn't die from the injury, this sort of thing has been known to happen before. A few years back, construction worker Patrick Lawler went to the dentist complaining of toothache and learned that he'd accidentally fired a 4-inch nail through the roof of his mouth nearly a week earlier, barely missing an eye.

http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-knife-skull-20110217,0,655449.story

[BlueCheese]

1. Geebus. n/t

[postulater]

2. I once xrayed a man who forgot to tell me he had been shot a long time ago.

He had a 30-06 bullet lodged in the lateral mass of his atlas, the top bone in his neck.

The surgeons decided at the time that it was more dangerous to remove it than to leave it there. A quarter inch in any direction and he would have been dead, but he lived for years with it there.

[ljm2002]

3. Saw this yesterday -- correction: that was a 10-inch blade...

...that was there for 4 years. The article in the Daily Telegraph had a video which clearly showed the extracted blade next to a tape measure. A full 10 inches long.

Egads!!!