Landscaper Survives After Nail Impaled In His Eye

BOSTON (CBS/AP) – A landscaper survived a horrific accident after a nearly 3-inch nail was impaled in his eye when he accidentally hit it with a weed-whacker. The incident happened about two years ago, but was just reported this week in the New England Journal of Medicine. Landscaper escapes with "barely a scratch" after getting 3-inch nail in eye http://t.co/ESrDI735gv pic.twitter.com/uFSoj73Qhv — CBS News (@CBSNews) May 14, 2015 The unidentified 27-year-old landscaper was cutting weeds using a power string trimmer when it hit a nail and it became lodged in his right eye. ‘EXCRUCIATING’ PAIN “He had immediate and persistent severe pain in the eye, which became excruciating with attempts to open the eye or move it,” doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital wrote in their presentation of the case. The man did not lose consciousness and there was slight bleeding. He was rushed to the emergency department at MGH. “When you looked at him, all you saw was the back end of the nail” in his right eye, said Dr. Wael Asaad, a neurosurgeon now at Rhode Island Hospital and Brown University. Doctors couldn’t tell how long the nail was or its path, so radiologist Dr. Rajiv Gupta used a new type of CT scanner to get detailed images. “It reached almost to the tip of the other eye and the brain. It was a very long nail,” he said. The good news: It had not penetrated the globe of the eye, but was to one side. The bad news: It ...
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