Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction, especially when it comes to the brain.\u00a0Take the case of Dante\u00a0Autullo.<\/p>\r\n
Autullo was using a nail gun to put together a shed in his hometown of Orland Park, Ill., Tuesday.\u00a0According to the Associated Press, he had the nail gun above his head and fired it. He thought he felt a nail fly past his ear, and in fact his common-law-wife, Gail Glaenzer, cleaned a cut on his head afterward.<\/p>\r\n
But the next day Autullo, 32,\u00a0felt nauseous, and went to the hospital.\u00a0Imagine his surprise when doctors showed him an X-ray of his skull, which showed a 3 1\/4 nail in the middle of his brain.<\/p>\r\n
AP reported that at first Autullo thought the doctors were trying to pull one over on him.<\/p>\r\n
“When they brought in the picture, I said to the doctor, ‘Is this a joke? Did you get that out of the doctors’ joke file?” Autullo said, according to AP.<\/p>\r\n
But it was no joke. The nail was there.<\/p>\r\n
Autello remained remarkably cool even after he learned\u00a0that he had a nail in his head. As an ambulance took him to a second hospital for surgery, he posted his mind-blowing X-ray on Facebook, AP reported.<\/p>\r\n
Autello was apparently lucky in terms of where the nail ended up in his brain, barely missing the area that controls motor function, according to AP.<\/p>\r\n
Surgeons removed the nail and Autello was doing well. As one neurosurgeon explained,\u00a0being shot in the head with a nail is a lot different than being shot in the head with a bullet. The nail is thin, so does minimal damage,\u00a0and doesn’t\u00a0explode into pieces\u00a0like a bullet.<\/p>\r\n
AP’s report said that surgeons removed the nail by\u00a0putting a hole in Autello’s skull near each end of the nail, and then fished out the nail. Part of the skull came out, too, and that was replaced with titanium mesh, the wire service said.<\/p>\r\n
I’d suggest that Autello lay off the do-it-yourself home projects for awhile.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\r\n
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