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Five inch knife found in man's head

Hospital staff treating a retired school teacher for a headache found a five inch knife blade wedged in his head. A headteacher from Poland went to the doctors suffering from a headache, following X-rays hospital staff found a knife embedded in his head. The discovery was made after doctors X-rayed Leonard Woronowicz to see if he had cracked his skull in a fall while climbing over a stool in his kitchen four days earlier.

Instead they found a blade that had penetrated the 61-year-old's head just below his right ear. It had snapped off at the handle without touching any major blood vessels or nerves - or causing any lasting damage. He said: "I thought they might give me an aspirin, instead they pulled a five inch knife blade out of my head."
Ref. https://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1306055.html?menu=

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Four days with a blade stuck in his head! It's a wonder he didn't get an infection. How could he not suspect or feel that there was something stuck in his head? I guess this falls along the same lines as the stories I have heard where surgeons have stitched up a patient and left one of the surgical tools inside the patient. It's amazing how resilient the human body can be sometimes.

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Yes but in the example you are giving the person is unconscious and they really do not know what the doctors are really doing. In this case the guy fell and a knife went straight into his head! how could he possible not realised something like that?. Unbelievable.

Edited: LDS_forever on 13th Mar, 2005 - 3:49am

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It 's very likely that the knife broke and only the blade penetrated the skull. The brain as a tissue has no pain sensors, so it's quite possible, that he felt only the superficial wound. Still, I wonder how came he didn't saw the broken knife.
I subscribe to malexander's opinion that human body is very resilient sometimes.