Medical Brazilian Man With Spear in Head: Done With Underwater Fishing

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A Brazilian man suffered a serious diving accident, resulting in a spear lodged in his head. Following the incident, he announced he would no longer engage in underwater fishing. Medical assessments indicated that while the spear penetrated his eye socket, it also reached his right frontal lobe, raising concerns about potential personality changes and cognitive effects, similar to historical cases like Phineas Gage. Discussions highlighted the risks of ongoing complications such as bleeding or infection, and the possibility of losing his sense of smell due to damage to the olfactory nerves. Overall, the incident underscores the dangers associated with underwater fishing and the profound impact of traumatic brain injuries.
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SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian man who came to a hospital with a spear stuck in his head after a diving accident says he is done with underwater fishing...

...Abreu told Globo TV on Wednesday that he felt "a sharp pain"...
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h5d2mCkhRUjwl0pEAXfoSKpIc-TgD97A3AJO0
 
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Ivan Seeking said:
[SAO PAULO (AP) — A Brazilian man who came to a hospital with a spear stuck in his head after a diving accident says he is done with underwater fishing...

Of course he's done with underwater fishing! He'll never be able to in and out of the boat with that thing sticking out of his head.

Come to think of it, there are several professions he'll no longer be able to do. Caving, driving a cab, turning around in narrow hallways. Anything indoors...
 
The fish strike back! :biggrin:
 
There was another case like this on the discovery channel where they rushed a man stabbed in the head with a knife 6-7 inches deep. He was ok later on.
 
When did Homer move to Brazil.
 
I looked at the video and all the scans and it seems that on the left (entry) side, the spear was limited to the eye socket and didn't injure the left hemisphere. However it looks that the tip of the spear did get into his right frontal lobe quite a way.

Starting with the famous case of Phineas Gage:

http://www.brainconnection.com/topics/?main=fa/phineas-gage

it's known that right frontal lobe injuries can cause personality alterations. There's is reason to be leary that more than his sense of smell might be affected as time goes on.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
There's is reason to be leary that more than his sense of smell might be affected as time goes on.
Yes, we can already see personality changes. For instance, he now hates underwater fishing. The mind is a strange thing.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Yes, we can already see personality changes. For instance, he now hates underwater fishing. The mind is a strange thing.

He doesn't hate it, Dave. He's merely done with it, that is: he feels he's already extracted the full measure of experience it has to offer.
 
zoobyshoe said:
I looked at the video and all the scans and it seems that on the left (entry) side, the spear was limited to the eye socket and didn't injure the left hemisphere. However it looks that the tip of the spear did get into his right frontal lobe quite a way.

Not necessarily. The plane that CT scan in the stories about it is in is in line with the sinuses, so pretty far anterior, and the spear seems angled in a way that it could have just missed the brain. Though, it is at a level where the olfactory nerves enter the olfactory bulb, so that's probably why he's lost his sense of smell.

Not that he's out of danger either. There's still risk of bleeding or infection.
 
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Moonbear said:
Not that he's out of danger either. There's still risk of bleeding or infection.
Or mice moving in.
 

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