http://www.cnn.com/2005/US/01/16/nailgun.accident.ap/index.html

Can someone explain to me HOW he missed this? Maybe it's just me, but if I shot myself with a nailgun, I'm pretty sure I'd notice...

Wierd... He's lucky to not have any major damage done.

Isn't that amazing? Doc? You going to comment? So the guy thought he just hit his mouth with the blunt end of the nail gun. Did not feel a thing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Now, this guy should not ever need a needle for dental repair in the future then. I guess the nail went in pretty fast. I think the surgery took like 4 hours to get that nail out. How would one like to wake up from that surgery and they hand you this long nail? Wow! He should frame it at home. I think he uses a hammer now!!! LOL Can't blame him there.

IT happens. This seems a little extreme though. I once bailed pretty hard off my bike. Got up checked my self out, did seem to be hurt other than a few scrapes. Got home and my mom noticed a piece of wood about 5" long in the back of my arm. Couldnt feel it at all, all the scrapes were painful though.

I had a patient who dropped something on her foot, so I X-rayed her and found a sewing needle that had been stuck in there for who knows how long (in a different spot than where she was hurting from the object that fell on her). She must have stepped on the needle sometime back.

I guess some people are too preoccupied and don't realize the pain and nail getting struck into them... im pretty sure i'd notice a hole cut into myself. Was there no blood or hole or anything? thats soo crazy how he didn't know...

I guess some people are too preoccupied and don't realize the pain and nail getting struck into them... im pretty sure i'd notice a hole cut into myself. Was there no blood or hole or anything? thats soo crazy how he didn't know...
The nail may have plugged the whole. Think about something like seran wrap, when you stab your finger through it, it stays very tight around your finger, something like that may have prevented bleeding. I'm no doctor or biology student, but thats how I'd understand it. About him not feeling it, the nerves may have died instantly? When I was in 7th grade, I was playing football in my front yard with some friends. The house was new and we'd had sod put down before we moved in. I guess the ground began to settle and I found out the hard way that the contractors had left garbage amongst other things on the ground while laying the sod. I dove on the football and my knee was split open by a broken piece of pipe. It made a tear in my tendon and required over 100 stitches(4 layers of them) to close up, I was very angry :mad: Now getting to the relevant point, I didn't feel a thing when it happened. I tried to stand up and realized I couldn't do it, pulled up my pant leg and saw my kneecap! I'd assume something similar happened to him, he had no idea anything happened. Sorry to bore you with my injury story.