It may seem very hard to believe, but the capacity of the human body to recover from injury can be truly astonishing. If you were hurt by accident or design in such a way that your skull was penetrated, you might reasonably expect that this would mean your death, instantaneously, but strangely enough that is not always the case. The brain, like other internal organs has no pain receptors, which is why some of the gruesome images here didn’t hurt the victim in the least.
1. KNIFE PLUNGED INTO BRAIN
An X-ray of Michael Hill, of Jacksonville, Fla., with an eight inch knife sticking out of his skull is on display during the grand opening celebration of Ripley’s Believe It Or Not Odditorium Thursday, June 21, 2007 in New York’s Times Square It is hard to look at images like the one above without experiencing a shiver down the spine.
2. SIX NAILS IN SKULL OF BUILDING WORKER
Six nails were embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia, 39, after an industrial incident caused a nail gun to shoot nails into his head and brain on April 19, 2004. Five of the six nails, shown above in an x-ray from Holy Cross Hospital, in Providence, USA, were removed in surgery that day, and the sixth was removed from his face on April 23, after the swelling had gone down.
3. TEENAGE BOY VICTIM OF SAVAGE KNIFE ATTACK
This harrowing picture shows an x-ray of a 15-year-old boy’s skull after a five inch knife was plunged into his head. Amazingly the teenager survived the stabbing and ten months on from the attack has enrolled in college. The boy and two other youngsters were attacked when they tried to stop a friend being robbed at a bus stop in London. The muggers used a kitchen knife to stab one boy in the forehead, another twice in the back and a third in the shoulder. He survived because he was rushed to hospital with the knife still sticking out of his head and doctors managed to operate in time. Surgeons said if anyone had tried to take it out he would have died.
4. CHINESE SCHOOLBOY SHOT THROUGH HEAD WITH ARROW
This unlucky Chinese boy narrowly escaped death when he was shot by a school friend. An arrow went through 11-year-old Liu Cheong’s eye socket, through his head and was only stopped by the back of his skull. “If the arrow had been shot with just a bit more force, it would have come out the back of his head,” said doctors at Jida Hospital in Changchun. The lad only survived because the arrow miraculously missed his brain.
5. GERMAN WOMAN WITH PENCIL IN BRAIN FOR DECADES
A computer tomography picture shows a pencil inside a woman’s head. After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, the German woman finally had it removed. Margaret Wegner, now 60, was 4-years-old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.
6.NIGHTCLUB VISITOR GETS CHAIR LEG THROUGH EYE
Patient Shafique el-Fahkri had a miraculous escape after being speared through the eye with a chair leg in a nightclub attack. Incredibly, despite the horrifying appearance of this gruesome X-ray, he lived to recount the harrowing experience to others, proving yet again just how resilient the human body is.
7. SEVENTEEN MONTH OLD BABY BOY FALLS ON CAR KEYS
A 17-month-old boy made a miraculous recovery after a fall which resulted in a car key piercing his eyelid and penetrating the brain. At first, the family of Nicholas Holderman were told that his eye had been ruptured, but – after another team of specialists examined the child – it appeared that he had suffered no damage whatsoever. Just over two months later Nicholas, of Kentucky, in the US, has made a complete recovery and shows no visible sign of his horrific injury. All of these people, unbelieveably, made complete recoveries from thier injuries, as did the US Army sergeant whose x-ray is shown below, havingbeen stabbed in the head by an insurgent in Iraq. Remarkable stories every one.
