German man spends 15 years with pencil in head

[The Dragon Master]

Aachen University Hospital says the 24-year-old man sought help in 2011 after suffering for years from headaches, constant colds and worsening vision in one eye. A scan showed that a four-inch pencil was lodged from his sinus to his pharynx and had injured his right eye socket.

The unnamed man said he did not know how the pencil got there but recalled that he once fell badly as a child.

The German doctors removed the pencil and say the man has recovered.

Hospital spokesman Mathias Brandstaedter said that the case was presented for the first time at a medical conference this week.

In 2007, a German woman plagued by headaches and nosebleeds had a pencil removed from inside her head after more than 50 years.

Link: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/10086679/German-man-spends-15-years-with-pencil-in-head.html

I was going to make a related pun but I can't come up with one

 

[Nikki]

Maybe he was trying to erase bad memories?

 

[Evil Eye]

Heh.

I wonder if they returned his pencil...

 

[The Dragon Master]

I still want to know how he got that pencil in his head. It's not something you can just miss.

 

[Evil Eye]

Teleportation, Dragon, teleportation. The man's a wizard

 

[The Dragon Master]

Teleportation, Dragon, teleportation. The man's a wizard

I would have thought that when he was given the gift of teleportation he would have done something useful with it. Rather than think "you know what would be awesome? teleporting this pencil into me 'eed".

 

[Evil Eye]

He doesn't know it and did it by accident!

 

[The Dragon Master]

He doesn't know it and did it by accident!

That's quite and accident

 

[Evil Eye]

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger, right?