A Chicago man, Dante Autullo who accidentally dropped his nail gun while on a ladder did not realize that he had actually fired a 3 1/2" nail right into his head.
According to the Chicago Tribune,
Autullo was standing on a ladder, reaching over his head to drive nails into the top of a wall, when he lost his grip on his nail gun. The recoil swung the gun back and pressed it against his skull. From the outside, it appeared to be a minor scrape, but just below the skin was the head of a nail."It felt like I got punched in the side of the head," Autullo said.
He popped a few pain killers and kept working. Later that night, he drove a plow truck for eight hours and took his children to a play rehearsal.
Autullo woke up after a nap Wednesday feeling nauseated with a nasty headache. He went to an immediate care center and eventually to Advocate Christ Medical Center.
Autullo is expected to leave the hospital this weekend with no lingering aftereffects. Damage to his brain tissue was minimal, and the father of four has showed no signs of loss of function, vision or memory, said Dr. Leslie Schaffer.
The point of the nail entered cleanly without sending fragments of bone into the delicate tissue of the brain. The flat head of the nail kept it from penetrating too deeply and held it in place securely, just as if it had been driven into a two-by-four, Schaffer said. During a two-hour operation, he drilled two holes on opposite sides of the nail head and lifted out a small piece of bone with the nail stuck in it.
The portion of the brain the nail struck, on the upper right side in the back of Autullo's head, controls some motor functions, but because he has so far showed no side effects, he probably won't, Schaffer said.
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