Man unaware of five inch knife in skull

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Five inch knife found in man's head

Hospital staff treating a retired school teacher for a headache found a five inch knife blade wedged in his head.

A headteacher from Poland went to the doctors suffering from a headache, following X-rays hospital staff found a knife embedded in his head /Freelance

The discovery was made after doctors X-rayed Leonard Woronowicz to see if he had cracked his skull in a fall while climbing over a stool in his kitchen four days earlier.

Instead they found a blade that had penetrated the 61-year-old's head just below his right ear. It had snapped off at the handle without touching any major blood vessels or nerves - or causing any lasting damage.

He said: "I thought they might give me an aspirin, instead they pulled a five inch knife blade out of my head."

Woronowicz, from the Polish town of Wojnowice, said he had tripped over the stool while doing work in his kitchen.

He said: "I had some tools and other gadgets scattered on the kitchen floor where I had been doing the work when I tripped. The blade from the kitchen knife must have pierced my head then. My head hurt a bit, but I was convinced that it was from the fall. There was a small gash on the side of my head near my ear, but I thought it would soon heal and did not make much of it. I put a plaster on it and left it."

He added: "I didn't even guess what had happened when the next day I wanted to cut a piece of bread but couldn't find the kitchen knife. Despite carefully searching the room I could only find the handle. But I forgot about it as my headaches got worse over the next few days, and I decided to go to a hospital."

Local doctors were bewildered at the sight of the X-ray pictures and immediately called for an ambulance to take the patient to the Bialystok regional centre hospital in Northern Poland.

Surgeons pulled the five inch blade out of his skull in an operation that took just a few minutes. The blade had gone into his head from the side near his right ear.

Dr Marek Rogowski from the Bialystok hospital said a surgeon could not have made a better job of placing the knife so that it missed all vital bones, nerves and blood vessels. He said: "We have found objects in patients' bodies before, but this is unprecedented."

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In a million-to-one shot, it appears that the blade neatly severed that part of the brain that controls awareness of whether a knife is stuck in it or not. Amazing.
 
Much like shgeo's response, my non W&C reply would be: Extremely unlikely.

(Waiting for this to make the move .....)
 
Please! That picture was in Weekly World News, right next to the pictures of the spacecraft that crashed in Nevada and the soldiers capturing the aliens. It's got to be real!
 
Years and years ago, I worked for a veterinary hospital fixing x-ray equipment. A family brought in their dog who refused to move and didn't want to be touched. The dog was visibly relieved to be at the vet hospital. He seemed to honestly know that professional help was at last at hand. The dog permitted a simple exam but still refused to stand up or be stood up. So, we decided to take an x-ray. The dog seemed to like that idea. I happened to be the one who pulled the film from the developer machine as it came out and even with my limited knowledge of vet medicine I exclaimed, "I know what the problem is."

"I'll be the judge of that," one of our doctors exclaimed pulling the film from my hands and putting it up on the viewer. "No, you're wrong entirely. This dog has swallowed a butcher's knife!" And, indeed, as I had seen in the x-ray even without the aide of the viewer box, there it was clearly visible in the picture. With extraordinary care, the dog, who seemed to genuinely understand that the problem was now understood, was moved to a nearby surgery and the knife removed.
 
It's far-fetched but I wouldn't dismiss it out of hand. There have been numerous accounts of people suffering horrendous injuries, yet still functioning. I recall one where a woman was (as she thought) slapped or punched as she entered a supermarket. It was only when staff monitoring the CCTV cameras saw her doing her shopping with a knife protruding from the back of her skull that the alarm was raised.

If this is genuine, I'd suggest that it was an attempted suicide. The victim has only attended hospital because the pain or infection became intolerable.

maximus otter
 
Here is another account of a man surviving a knife embedded in his skull from the Guinness Book of world records.
There was another account that I remember seeing of a man with a POS survival knife embedded in his skull that survived but I couldn't find the reference too it.:grumpy:
Like this Polish man it went into an area where it caused no harm.
A search on Google turns up several hits on the Polish man.
 
haha cockroachfarm. i would probably be skeptical myself, but after watching this father and son on tv who went through gardening shears embedded in the dads temple, anything is possible :p
 
Notice on the X-ray that the butt end of the blade protrudes a half inch or more out past the outside of the guy's head.
 
I was thinking that the x-ray does not pass the sniff test.

You can see skull / bone structures through the outline of the blade.

Question, assuming the blade is made from metal of some kind. Metal being more dense than bone, wouldn't it obscure the x-ray to the point where no features of the bone were visible in the outline of the blade?
 
Although no where near as sensational, my dad was sitting in a college class when he felt a strange "itch" in his lower lip. As he brushed his hand across his lip, blood appeared on his hand and something was sticking out of his lip. He discreetly grabbed onto the object and proceeded to pull a 3" piece of wire out. He recalled as a child falling head first through a chicken wire fence and getting all cut up. The wire had rested there for all those years. :eek:
 
Are we to believe that he was able to turn his head for 4 days without driving the point of the blade and the jagged ends into sensitive areas of the spine, neck, or brain? What about the pressure on his head/neck when he was lying down/sleeping? This story just doesn't add up.
 
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