Survives Screwdriver Through Skull

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A 2-year-old girl from Farmington, Minnesota, named Teagan Gislason, suffered a head injury when a screwdriver accidentally pierced her skull while she was playing during a church service in Cannon Falls. The incident occurred on December 19 when she fell while running with the tool. Remarkably, Teagan sustained only a bruise, with no damage to her eye or brain, and surgery was not required to remove the screwdriver, although the extraction process took four hours. The discussion also touches on other instances of head injuries, highlighting the resilience of individuals in similar situations.
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A 2-year-old Farmington, Minn., girl suffered only a bruise when a screwdriver went right into her head, according to the Minneapolis Star Tribune.

Teagan Gislason was playing with some other children in a supervised area during a church service in Cannon Falls, Minn., Dec. 19 when she found the screwdriver and started running with it and fell.

It pierced her skull, just above her left eye.

Neither her eye nor her brain was damaged and doctors did not need to perform surgery to remove it, although it did take four hours to extract the tool from her head.


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I once saw on tv a guy that tried to commit suicide by firing staples into his skull using a staple gun. Fortunately the guy survived with no serious damage to his brain.
 
Oerg said:
I once saw on tv a guy that tried to commit suicide by firing staples into his skull using a staple gun. Fortunately the guy survived with no serious damage to his brain.
At any rate, it got no worse.
 

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