There
once was a little girl called Margret who got a pencil stuck in her head.
(This
is not a funny funny real news story, this is a funny peculiar news story.)
The
reports we saw on Ananova, quoting the BBC, don't say how this actually happened.
The
German girl was just 4 years of age. The year: 1952.
Surgeons
removed a large part of the pencil at the time, but decided it was too dangerous
to operate because the pencil was lodged too close to the brain.
They
left a 2.1cm portion of the pencil embedded in soft tissue behind her nose.
For
years she suffered nosebleeds and headaches until, now, 59 years of age, medical
advances meant they could take a calculated risk and remove it.
She's
doing well and no longer has headaches and is getting her sense of smell back
too...
11th
August 2007
