A German man spent 15 years with a pencil in his
head following a childhood accident.
Aachen University Hospital says the 24-year-old
man sought help in 2011 after suffering for years
from headaches, constant colds and worsening
vision in one eye. A scan showed that a four-inch
pencil was lodged from his sinus to his pharynx
and had injured his right eye socket.
The unnamed man said he did not know how the
pencil got there but recalled that he once fell badly
as a child.
The German doctors removed the pencil and say
the man has recovered.
Hospital spokesman Mathias Brandstaedter said
that the case was presented for the first time at a
medical conference this week.
In 2007, a German woman plagued by headaches
and nosebleeds had a pencil removed from inside
her head after more than 50 years .
Margret Wegner, 59, fell over carrying the pencil
in her hand when she was four.
"The pencil went right through my skin - and
disappeared into my head," she said at the time.

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