Friday, February 18, 2011

Doctors remove knife from man's head after 4 years

First there were bullets, then there were nails, then there was the and now there's a guy with a knife in his head. All these stayed in place for years!

Note: They are all MEN with these potentially lethal elements in the their heads.

Associated Press on SF Gate reports that Surgeons in southern China successfully removed a rusty, 4-inch (10-centimeter) knife from the skull of a man who said it had been stuck in there for four years.

Li Fuyan, 30, had been suffering from severe headaches, bad breath and breathing difficulties but never knew the cause of his discomfort, said the senior official at the Yuxi City People's Hospital in Yunnan Province. Li told doctors he had been stabbed in the lower right jaw by a robber four years ago and the blade broke off inside his head without anyone realizing it, said the director of the hospital's Communist Party committee's office who would only give his surname, He.

Surgeons worked cautiously to remove the badly-corroded blade without shattering it, He said. The hospital's website also reported the successful surgery.

Read more HERE.

Hat Tip: Weird News

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