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Mark Twain (letter to Joseph Twichell after his wife's death)
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Treat Nail Guns with Caution (Nail Gun/Rail Gun?)  
It's a pretty rare injury'
www.smh.com.au/news/World/Its-a-pretty-rare-injury/ 2005/01/17/1105810801237.html
January 17, 2005 - 8:31AM
A nail gun backfired on Patrick Lawler, 23, on January 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realise a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.

He was taken to a suburban Denver hospital, where he underwent a four-hour surgery. The nail had plunged four centimetres into his brain, barely missing his right eye, Metcalse said.

"This is the second one we've seen in this hospital where the person was injured by the nail gun and didn't actually realise the nail had been embedded in their skull," neurosurgeon Sean Markey told KUSA-TV in Denver. "But it's a pretty rare injury."
Despite his lack of medical insurance and hospital bills between $US80,000 ($104,561.5) and $US100,000 ($130,701.87), Katerina Lawler said her husband is in good spirits.

"The doctors said, 'If you're going to have a nail in the brain, that's the way you want it to be,"' she said. "He's the luckiest guy, ever."
[permalink] posted by Mez at 3:28 am