Amazing recovery: Man survives pin lodged in his brain
A Colorado man survived an incredible head wound.
Back in April, a metal pin from a roto-tiller shot into the 19-year-old's brain.
Chris Clear's unbelievable story starts in April. Chris' mother, Dawn, said "It's changed his life because of what happened."
As a volunteer firefighter in Penrose, his free time was spent saving lives until the accident.
He was helping a friend move
More.. a rototiller when something snapped.
Chris Clear said, "At first it just felt like a rock hit me in the face. It didn't feel like anything went into my head, just like a rock hit me."
"He said, 'do you think this is bad?'" Dawn added. "I said, 'yea it looks bad. I think your nose is broke.'"
Chris went to St. Thomas Moore Hospital in Canon City. He says he had unbearable pain in his neck, so that's where the first X-ray focused.
"They just sent him home," said Dawn. "They said it was a cervical sprain."
But, the pain got worse.
"It hurt real bad when I turned in either direction," Chris said. "Leaning back, leaning forward, if I looked down it would hurt real bad. If I leaned back the pain got a lot worse."
"If he went forward, the pin would move forward," said Dawn. "If he would lay down the pin would sink down."
Twenty-four hours after the pin pierced his brain, another X-ray and a second trip to the hospital found it.
It was determined that a large metal pin from the rototiller lodged in his brain. It was that, not a rock, that hit him.
"The blunt part of it hit me right in the nose and it came back and traveled all the way to the back of my head," said Chris.
Luckily, the pin just missed several major arteries. Chris endured nine hours of surgery to remove the pin.
Two months later, Chris was back working again as a volunteer, and in training to be an EMT.
He says he feels fine. There's not even a scar to remind him of the accident, but he kept the pin as a souvenir.
Chris says if you touch his scar his front teeth go numb and, his mom says his tastes have changed. He no longer loves sweets.
Luckily, those seem to be the only lasting effects.
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Added: Jul 8 2008 In: news_politics
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