PORTLAND, Ore. (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 said.Surgeons removed the nails with needle-nosed pliers and a drill and the man survived with no serious lasting effects, said 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 into his head.
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.
No one before is known to have survived after intentionally firing so many foreign objects into the head, said 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.
This is exactly how I think belief affects society. Can YOU spot the connection? Can YOU make a clever statement showing how drilling nails into one's head is connected to religion? If so, post a comment on my blog, at hellboundalleee.blogspot.com .
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OK, I'm in a hurry or I could probably do better, but here goes.
In Lethal Weapon II, Danny Glover has a nail gun that Mel Gibson picks up and uses to kill a bad guy. Mel Gibson played Jesus in Passion of the Christ and had nails put into him. Co-starring in that movie was a woman named Monica Bellucci, whose last name sounds like John Belushi's. John Belushi starred in a movie called Animal House and the character of Chip Diller was played by Kevin Bacon.
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