This 27-year-old landscaper has seen better days.
The man was weed whacking when the blades hit a dormant nail in the grass, launching it into his right eye.
No, no it’s fine. Can’t even notice it.
The man was taken to Boston’s Mass General Hospital where doctors used a CT scanner to get details about the nails length and path. They found that the nail was lodged against one of the main arteries supplying blood to the head, and another artery serving the other eye.
Dr. Wael Asaad, the neurosurgeon on the case, reported,
“The tip of the nail was like the finger in the dam. We were worried that if we pulled it out, there would be bleeding.”
To avoid the a possible artery eruption, they devised a plan where one surgeon was prepared to operate through his head, and the other was ready to operate through the neck, while a third pulled out the nail.
The surgery was successful and after a tetanus shot and an antibiotic subscription, the landscaper regained his vision completely.
And as for me, I’m never eating an olive off of a toothpick ever again.
[H/T Unilad]