China Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 Woman has pencil removed from head By KRISTEN ALLEN, Associated Press Writer Tue Aug 7, 12:30 PM ET BERLIN - After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed. Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain. "It bored right through the skin and disappeared into my head," Wegner told Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild. "It hurt like crazy." At the time the technology did not exist to safely remove the pencil, so Wegner had to live with it — and the chronic headaches and nosebleeds that it brought — for the next five-and-a-half decades. A CT scan showing the embedded pencil But on Friday, Dr. Hans Behrbohm, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Berlin's Park-Klinik Weissensee, was able to use modern techniques to identify the exact location of the pencil so that he could accurately determine that the risks of removing it, and then take most of it out. The operation was particularly difficult because of the way the pencil had shifted as Wegner grew, Behrbohm told The Associated Press on Tuesday. Click on the link for the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tizzod Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I wonder if she got smarter once it was removed, a la Homer Simpson and the crayon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burgold Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 That's really wild. How did she survive infection and all the other threats? How did she manage to wedge the pencil in so that it didn't move and keep causing greater and greater damage. On the bright side... At least she had an easy time writing down her thoughts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riggo-toni Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 At least she had an easy time writing down her thoughts. :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsOrlando Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I guess she didn't take life for "granite". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkinsBry Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 I wonder if she got smarter once it was removed, a la Homer Simpson and the crayon. I thought of Homer as soon as I read the title. Homer: I have a crayon in my brain? (points to his heart) :laugh: :laugh: :laugh: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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rincewind Posted August 9, 2007 Share Posted August 9, 2007 SIMPSONS DID IT!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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