Bruno Barcellos de Souza Coutinho, 34, was cleaning fishing equipment in the city of Petropolis when the speargun accidentally fired and lodged 15 centimetres into his head, through his left eye and deep into his brain.
However, he did not seek medical attention until the next day when a relative encouraged him to go to hospital. He arrived for treatment completely lucid and underwent emergency surgery.
De Souza Coutinho lost his eye but incredibly avoided suffering any brain damage.
3 comments:
You'll be fine. Just walk it off.
@Mitchell: "You'll be fine. Just walk it off," was the VERY FIRST thing that came to mind. Reminds me of the story of the tough ol' farmer worked right through his ruptured appendix, never went to the doctor, and survived.
Lurker111
"...avoided suffering any brain damage."
Does that mean more than he already had to have, to be cleaning a loaded speargun?
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