Woman Has Pencil Removed From Head After 55 Years - Weird Story of the Day

Ok, all I can say is OUCH!!

Woman Has Pencil Removed From Head

By KRISTEN ALLEN

The Associated Press
Tuesday, August 7, 2007; 12:30 PM

BERLIN -- After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed.

Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

"It bored right through the skin and disappeared into my head," Wegner told Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild. "It hurt like crazy."

At the time the technology did not exist to safely remove the pencil, so Wegner had to live with it - and the chronic headaches and nosebleeds that it brought - for the next five-and-a-half decades.

A computer tomography picture provided by the Park-Klinik Weissensee in Berlin on Tuesday Aug. 7, 2007 shows a pencil inside a woman's head. After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed. Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the eight centimeter-long (3.15 inch-long) pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain. On Friday, it could finally be removed at the Park-Klinik. (AP Photo/Park-Klinik Weissensee) (AP)

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