Nurse here.
Man in his 50s has brain tumour, has surgery to remove the tumour and hemicraneotomy to relieve intracranial pressure (bone taken from the skull and left out).
Man walks out of this and has normal life.
Man is walking around minding his own business.
Building explodes. Shrapnel flies.
Shrapnel hits man, exactly where the burr hole was, travels through his brain and gets lodged behind his eye.
Man still alive.
It baffles me that of all the people who could have been hit by shrapnel it happened to a guy with a missing skull part and it hit him exactly where it was missing. It baffles me even more that he survived all of this.
Man in his 50s has brain tumour, has surgery to remove the tumour and hemicraneotomy to relieve intracranial pressure (bone taken from the skull and left out).
Man walks out of this and has normal life.
Man is walking around minding his own business.
Building explodes. Shrapnel flies.
Shrapnel hits man, exactly where the burr hole was, travels through his brain and gets lodged behind his eye.
Man still alive.
It baffles me that of all the people who could have been hit by shrapnel it happened to a guy with a missing skull part and it hit him exactly where it was missing. It baffles me even more that he survived all of this.