Pencil in woman's head for half a century

[Third Eye]

A 59-year-old woman who has suffered blinding headaches since she was four years old has finally had an 8cm long pencil removed from her skull.

Margaret Wegner underwent the risky procedure in Berlin at the weekend to remove the pencil, which showed up on a computer brain scan.

When she saw the image of the white pencil, snapped in two places, she recalled an accident in the town of Dessau when she was four.

"I remember tripping over and the pencil I was holding disappeared," she said. "I had a pain in my head * the pencil, it seems, had penetrated the skin and bored straight into my skull."

The pencil missed an artery and nerve endings in the brain by a whisker. Doctors at the time deemed it too risky to operate. That remained the consensus among many doctors over the years but the large part of the pencil was finally removed.

The 2cm tip is still embedded. It has been overgrown by nerves and blood cells which are too dangerous to cut through.

OMG!

 

[ratedrsuperstar]

Saw it on Tonight Show by Jay Leno yesterday

 

[vish786]

old news / or a similar case was already their before.

there r many such cases goin on nowadays.

 

[Third Eye]

old news.

there r many such cases goin on nowadays.

I know, but there is no thread running so i though i would create this.The news is not much old .

 

[Gigacore]

stunning news

 

[fun2sh]

old news / or a similar case was already their before.

there r many such cases goin on nowadays.

yeah many such cases hav come wen something was found in some1's brain after many years

 

[~Lil JinX~]

What the...O_O

I wonder what you'd find in my skull

 

[RCuber]

Its really shocking.. people should start wearing helmets all the time. now a days lots of stuff are comming out of the head nails, bullets etc etc.... what next... Potatos?

 

[codred]

well, i have a HB pencil lead of 0.5mm in length beneath my skin on my palm [between index finger & thumb]. it landed there as result of small fight between me n my classmate whn i woz in 6th std, tht guy woz attacking me n in my self defence i used by palm n tht alleged pencil lead broke after piercing into my palm, ever since i remember that i never took tht lead out as it woz paining that time.

even today i can see dark greenish-bluish spot on my palm. The lead is still embedded... lol