Pencil in woman's head for half a century

By at 10:37 am Tuesday, Aug 7

Doctors in Berlin have removed a pencil that had been lodged in Margaret Wegner's skull for fifty years. As a child, she tripped while holding the pencil and it went right into her noggin. From The Belfast Telegraph:
Multimedia Archive 00253 Pencil 253095D The pencil missed an artery and nerve endings in the brain by a whisker. Doctors at the time deemed it too risky to operate. That remained the consensus among many doctors over the years but the large part of the pencil was finally removed.

The 2cm tip is still embedded. It has been overgrown by nerves and blood cells which are too dangerous to cut through.
Link (Thanks, Jennifer Lum!)

David Pescovitz

Collector of anomalies, esoterica, and curiosities.

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