Pin Removed From Man's Brain
By: Web Producer
Updated: July 9, 2008
Rototiller Pin Successfully Removed From Mans Brain
(Penrose, CO) -- A Colorado man has returned to his volunteer firefighting job about two months after a nearly-fatal accident.
Nineteen-year-old Chris Clear said had been moving a rototiller in April when he was hit in the face by what he thought was a rock.
After experiencing pain in the back of his head, Clear went to the hospital, where an X-ray revealed a pin from the rototiller had entered his nose and became lodged in his brain.
The pin was successfully removed after nine hours of surgery.
Clear says he has lost some of his peripheral vision and no longer eats sweets.
(Copyright 2008 by Newsroom Solutions)
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