wprager
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Age : 63
Location : Kanata
Favorite Team : Ottawa
Registration date : 2008-08-05
WARNING: This is going to make you cringe.
Just read yesterday about this 86-year-old guy who doing some pruning with some gardening shears -- not very long ones, probably around a foot long, tip of handle to tip of blade.
He dropped them and they hit pointy-ends down, with the handle sticking up. He was bending over to pick them up when he lost his balance (the guy was no spring chicken) and fell face forward onto the handle.
WARNING: This is going to make you cringe.
The handle went below his right eyeball and through the eye-socket and the nasal cavity, down all the way to his throat, resting right on the external carotid artery. Amazingly, the doctors were able to save his life *and* his eye.
This is what it looked like on X-Ray:
This is how he looks now:
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