Autullo, a 32-year-old man from the Chicago area, was in his workshop when a nail gun when off near his head. He thought only the point of the gun had hit his head, but in fact the tool operated as if it were on any other flat service and punctured his skull.

Autullo told his fiance, Gail Glaenzer, a nail had just "whizzed by his head," and she cleaned the wound, which looked like he just had a cut in his head. The next day, Autullo felt nauseated and Glaenzer took him to the hospital.


An X-ray at the hospital revealed that the 3.25-inch nail was lodged into his brain and had missed the section that controls motor skills by millimeters. Doctors successfully removed the nail on Friday, and Autullo is functioning normally -- he remembers everything, can speak well, and can move all his limbs, Glaenzer said in the article.
His is hardly the first astonishing X-ray.
In 2009, doctors in Hungary were shocked to find a kidney stone the size of a coconut in one unlucky patient, according to the Daily Mail.
An X-ray revealed that the patient's kidney stone weighed a whopping 2.5 pounds and was 6.7 inches in diameter -- in comparison, the largest stones are typically the size of a golf ball, the article reports. Unlike small kidney stones, which can usually pass on their own, this one needed to be surgically removed.
And finally, another example of a nail precariously lodged into a skull.
In 2005, Patrick Lawler went to the dentist with a toothache -- and it's no doubt he was feeling some pain in his jaw, because an X-ray showed that a nail had been shot through his mouth, spanning a 4-inch space from the top of his teeth to just in front of his eyes, the Associated Press reported.
The nail went 1.5 inches into his brain and just missed his eye.

Via: yahoo