Doctors: With Pencil Removed from Woman's Head, Pain Should Subsid

[sox4lifeinPA]

The German woman who had a pencil lodged in her head for 55 years should start to feel better now that most of it has been removed, her doctor said Tuesday.

 

The removal should end her chronic headaches and nosebleeds, said Dr. Hans Behrbohm.

 

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

 

"It bored right through the skin and disappeared into my head," Wegner, now 59, 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 ensuing chronic headaches and nosebleeds-- for the next 5 1/2 decades.

 

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

 

The operation was 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 done brain surgery to remove bullets from shooting victims and glass from people involved in car accidents.

 

Although a piece of a pencil about four-fifths of an inch long could not be removed, Behrbohm said it does not pose 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 return soon, Behrbohm said.

 

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

 

 

 

 

 

increase my killing power, eh?

[GoSox05]

that's a long time to have a pencil in your head. Just amazing.

[LosMediasBlancas]

Please post the link. Thx.

[knightni]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070806/od_nm/...pencil_odd_dc_1

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292216,00.html

 

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5006003,00.html

 

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/08/penci...r-55-years.html

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2841341.ece

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6933721.stm

 

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1AD9B262-F08...7-6BAC7F9591C4/

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/07/...in3142207.shtml

 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007...4399937-ap.html

 

http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL06202294.html

 

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Pencil_in_hea...ith_X_ray_scans

 

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/2...any-pencil.html

 

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=64066

 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/wor...icle2841533.ece

 

http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/arti...x?storyid=75027

 

http://realtime.com/realtime_news/rt_scien...p;pageregion=A4

 

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2007...07/4399992.html

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1278782,00.html

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20145219/

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3450696

 

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...ec=Worldupdates

 

http://www.topix.com/forum/news/weird/TIN26KURHUOL9URPH

 

http://news.netscape.com/story/2007/08/07/...onic-headaches/

 

http://news.scotsman.com/latest_odd.cfm?id=1231002007

 

http://tailrank.com/2371349/German-has-pen...-after-55-years

 

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/08/...r_55_years.html

 

 

 

 

[witesoxfan]

you missed one

[LosMediasBlancas]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070806/od_nm/...pencil_odd_dc_1

 

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,292216,00.html

 

http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/stor...5006003,00.html

 

http://althouse.blogspot.com/2007/08/penci...r-55-years.html

 

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2841341.ece

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6933721.stm

 

http://clipmarks.com/clipmark/1AD9B262-F08...7-6BAC7F9591C4/

 

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/07/...in3142207.shtml

 

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2007...4399937-ap.html

 

http://africa.reuters.com/odd/news/usnL06202294.html

 

http://digg.com/offbeat_news/Pencil_in_hea...ith_X_ray_scans

 

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/2...any-pencil.html

 

http://www.shortnews.com/start.cfm?id=64066

 

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/wor...icle2841533.ece

 

http://www.9news.com/news/watercooler/arti...x?storyid=75027

 

http://realtime.com/realtime_news/rt_scien...p;pageregion=A4

 

http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2007...07/4399992.html

 

http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,70131-1278782,00.html

 

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20145219/

 

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=3450696

 

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=...ec=Worldupdates

 

http://www.topix.com/forum/news/weird/TIN26KURHUOL9URPH

 

http://news.netscape.com/story/2007/08/07/...onic-headaches/

 

http://news.scotsman.com/latest_odd.cfm?id=1231002007

 

http://tailrank.com/2371349/German-has-pen...-after-55-years

 

http://www.medgadget.com/archives/2007/08/...r_55_years.html

 

 

Make an effort next time.

 

[Brian]

So instead of her being right for 55 years, was she write?

 

/that was awful