IN the Civilised nations of the world technology used to help instead of hurt recives top priority. This example is a bit odd, but shows how devolpements can help humanity. Probbly not that intresting to the Daisy cutter obcessed american pig but real humans would like it.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070807/...pencil_in_head

By KRISTEN ALLEN, Associated Press Writer
Tue Aug 7, 12:30 PM ET



BERLIN - After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed.

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Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

"It bored right through the skin and disappeared into my head," Wegner told Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild. "It hurt like crazy."

At the time the technology did not exist to safely remove the pencil, so Wegner had to live with it — and the chronic headaches and nosebleeds that it brought — for the next five-and-a-half decades.

But on Friday, Dr. Hans Behrbohm, an ear, nose and throat specialist at Berlin's Park-Klinik Weissensee, was able to use modern techniques to identify the exact location of the pencil so that he could accurately determine that the risks of removing it, and then take most of it out.

The operation was particularly difficult because of the way the pencil had shifted as Wegner grew, Behrbohm told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

"This was something unique because the trauma was so old," said Behrbohm, who has also operated to remove bullets from the brains of shooting victims, and glass from the brains of people involved in car accidents.

Though a 0.79-inch piece of the pencil could not be removed, Behrbohm said it does not present a danger.

And now Wegner, the wife of German boxing coach Ulli Wegner, will no longer have the headaches and nosebleeds, and her sense of smell should also return soon, Behrbohm said.

"She shouldn't suffer any longer," he said.

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That is a really interesting piece NOYB. Thank you for sharing. Technology can be wonderful.

Good news for the woman and a pat on the back for the surgon that removed the pencil.

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Since she will soon be able to smell him, hope her husband smells good. HMMM....could be the end of them if he doesn't.

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syd, Germans are usually pretty clean people, so I bet the smell isn't a problem,and since she will no longer have head aches, he will be happy too.

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