14 DAY TRIAL // A Chinese man had an entire 3-inch (8-centimeter) long nail removed from his head earlier this month after he didn't even notice the moment the foreign object got there. Doctors were amazed by the discovery and by the fact that the man didn't suffer any long-term damage as the nail didn't hit any nerves.
Yang, Yi Kui, a 55-year-old man from China's Jiangsu province, was using a cutting machine just a few days before New Year, when a nail got stuck in the device. While trying to continue his work, the man didn't notice that the stuck nail flew out of the device and “ripped into [his] head and left a small hole on the skin.”
He believed it was just a scratch and it wasn't until the next day that he started feeling sick and decided to go and see a doctor. After a routine consult, the man was sent to receive an X-Ray and discovered the foreign object in his skull, notes The Huffington Post.
Both Kui and the doctors were shocked by the finding and decided to remove the nail from inside the man's skull as rapidly as possible. Surgeons performed a risky craniotomy, that could have left the patient with life-threatening issues. They started by removing a part of his skull in order to access the brain and take away the nail.
Thankfully, the man is in stable condition and no complications were encountered during the procedure. Also, the lucky man had no nerves damaged by the surgery or the actual nail that strongly ripped into his head.
In the X-Ray the doctor took, the nail is highly visible and it is lodged from the back of the eye almost all the way to the back of his head. It is incredible how he managed to get out of this situation with little to no damage, intact eyesight and brain functions. Only a few inches different and the man could have ended up blind, paralyzed or even dead.
