[url]http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/16/nailgun.accident.ap/index.html[/url]

very strange

WOW. just shows you what shock can do. he didn't even feel it. thank god he didnt get an MRI, that would have killed him.

the worst part of that story is...

[quote] Despite his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $80,000 and $100,000, Katerina Lawler said her husband is in good spirits. [/quote]

when i was in the states i cut my eyeball and refused to go to the hospital so i stayed in bed for 2days and i was blind and in pain ..i eventually went to a clinic...i wasnt goin go to hospital cause of ur medical bills over there...

feel sorry for the guy..nice xrays all the same..

thats the catch 22..... best doctors come here b/c the system lets em make more money by using insurance costs to say they need to charge more.

i know a dentist who works 10-6 m-f and made over 355k last year.

^OMFG thats a shit lot of money...thats just wrong...i mean come on a dentist isnt that skilled to be payed that much..

the system is wrong defo..

word. thank insurance companies. they bang dentists nearly a much as anesthesiologist b/c the dentist do all the sedations themselves.

silly isnt it. but hell i know im safe to a degree.

^yeah i guess..i just feel sorry on someone who earns very little and gets really sick..there kinda screwed..although our health care is slow and the hospitals are kinda shit at least its free thats the benefit really. :|

i just dont understand how you couldnt notice a bloody 4 inch nail embedded in your mouth, nose or whatever. that is really bizarre.

very lucky too.. he should be out buying lottery tickets

this sounds fake ..a 4inch nail stuck in the roof of your mouth ???? :shock: comon now :roll:

I'd say the same if it wasnt on cnn.com.. but who knows, lol

Re: This must have hurt...or not

the nail gun would have to be pressed against your skin to discharge. unless it fired of something then into wherever it went. most construction guys are all snapped out on the job anyway.

how he don't feel anything into his skull that's a strange thing. :shock:

WHOWHHH!!!This is amazing!!! :mrgreen: :Naughty:

shock. plain and simple. when i was in post op i asked my C.O. when they were gonna fix my arm..... i didnt even remember being treated. i woke up the next day with 35 staples and 8 inch scar running down my tricep onto my forearm wondering what the hell happened. shock can kill you by itself.

4 cm into his brain and no damaged ocurred? GET REAL!

[quote=Gonzo]4 cm into his brain and no damaged ocurred? GET REAL![/quote]

Very probable looking at the site of injury. One of the most famous neurological patients, Phineas Gage, had a metal rod come through his eyesocekt into the brain and he was totally fine. Except for some small changes in personality. :wink: Brain does not hurt. And you don't have that many mechano-receptors in your mouth roof - it's the most insensitive part of your body - for the temperature at least, so maybe also for pressure.

It's possible, parts of your brain can even be removed without it having any real effects on you. There even used to be a treatment, I don't know for what it was, but they'd remove part of the frontal lobes of your brain. Consequence was that the characters were changed in a negative way though.

That the report doesn't say anything about damage doesn;t mean it isn't there though.

we only use, what?, 10% of it?

i guess most of the world only uses about 6%

[quote=Yao]It's possible, parts of your brain can even be removed without it having any real effects on you. There even used to be a treatment, I don't know for what it was, but they'd remove part of the frontal lobes of your brain. Consequence was that the characters were changed in a negative way though. [/quote]

Lobotomy that was. It was intended to IMPROVE your character by removing the control that your overgrown ego (sitting comfortably in your frontal lobes) had over the rest of your mind. :lol: Freudianism can be dangerous... :lol:

psychology major, are we?

i don't understand how this guy didn't feel the nail go in, unless he deadened the nerve or something.

Yep. I even got a 'Beware - psychologist' T-shirt... :lol: