LITTLETON, Colorado (AP) -- A dentist found the source of the toothache Patrick Lawler was complaining about on the roof of his mouth -- a four-inch (10-centimeter) nail the construction worker had unknowingly embedded in his skull six days earlier.
A nail gun backfired on Lawler, 23, on January 6 while working in Breckenridge, a ski resort town in the central Colorado mountains. The tool sent a nail into a piece of wood nearby, but Lawler didn't realize a second nail had shot through his mouth, said his sister, Lisa Metcalse.
That reminds me of a news story I once saw on t.v. (and can't find on the internet right now) of a lady who walked into a grocery store or something, and she couldn't figure out why people were staring at her. Turns out, she had a knife sticking out of the back of her neck! Someone had tried to stab her, and they severed a nerve so she didn't even know the knife was there! This nail could have gone in perfectly so it either cut nerves or went through tissue that does not have any nerves in it, which would explain why he didn't feel it. Also, because it went so quickly and with such great pressure, it more than likely deadened any nerves that it was up against.
