Monday, April 06, 2009

Man Coughs Up Nail Stuck In His Nose

If you read the entire story, it says that Mr Sanchez had the nail in his nasal cavity for 30 years. Well, if he didn't know how it got there, how do they know it was there for 30 years?

Prax Sanchez went to a hospital for an MRI. "When I went to lay down on the MRI machine, I had a real pain on my right side under my eye," said Sanchez.

Doctors asked him if he had any kind of metal in his face, perhaps from past procedures, but Sanchez said he wasn't aware of anything. A short time later, Sanchez coughed up the unimaginable, a nail over an inch long.

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1 comment:

Spadoman said...

Was it rusty? Wonder what it was made of to last 30 years in a wet environment. Isn't the human body like 90+ percent water?

Although, I have seen first hand shrapnel come to the surface of a human body 40 years after it was injected into the same body from a hand grenade explosion.

Weird stuff. Wonder if the staples in my chest will come out through my nose at some point? Hmmmmmmm.