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Man survives six nails driven into head
Thursday, May 6, 2004 Posted: 0127 GMT (0927 HKT)
Six nails are embedded in the skull of construction worker Isidro Mejia
shown in this x-ray.
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LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- A construction worker had six nails driven
into his head in an accident with a high-powered nail gun, but doctors said
Wednesday they expect him to make a full recovery.
Three nails penetrated Isidro Mejia's brain, and one entered his spine below
the base of his skull. Doctors said the nails barely missed his brain stem
and spinal cord, preventing paralysis or death.
He made his first public appearance Wednesday since the April 19 accident
that left him with 3 1/2-inch nails embedded in his face, neck and skull.
He told reporters in Spanish from his wheelchair that he does not remember
much about the accident, but is grateful to be alive.
"He says that he's very happy to be alive," said Dr. Rafael Quinonez, a
neurosurgeon who removed the nails at Providence Holy Cross Medical Center.
"And he told me this morning that he thought he was going to die. He was
happy when he opened his eyes, and he saw that he's still with us."
Mejia, 39, was atop an unfinished home when he fell from the roof onto a
co-worker who was using the nail gun, Los Angeles County sheriff's Deputy
Mark Newlands said.
The two men tried to grab each other to keep from falling, but both tumbled
to the ground. At some point, the nail gun discharged and drove the nails
into Mejia's head.
"They're extremely powerful," Newlands said. "They've got to drive through
three-quarter-inch plywood."
Quinonez said Mejia told authorities he remembered a "shock" to the back of
his neck and little else before passing out.
"We did not have too much hope that he would survive, but we did it and he
survived," Quinonez said, calling the recovery "close to a miracle."
Mejia is walking with minimal assistance and speaks somewhat slowly because
his brain's speech center was affected, but his progress has been
"remarkable," Quinonez said. With rehabilitation therapy, he should fully
recover, he said.
"He is basically normal," Quinonez said.
Five nails were removed the same day and the sixth, in Mejia's face, was
removed April 23 after swelling went down, the hospital said.
Authorities cleared the co-worker of any wrongdoing.
http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/West/05/05/nailed.skull.ap/index.html