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Updated: 4:21 PM Apr 5, 2009
Man Coughs Up Nail Stuck In His Nose
Going to the doctor doesn't get any weirder than this. A Colorado Springs man gets an MRI, but ends up getting a lot more than that. Posted: 12:54 PM Apr 1, 2009Reporter: Eric Lupher Email Address: elupher@kktv.com |
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Posted by: SAFESCAN
Location: Flyover-Country
on Apr 3, 2009 at 09:19 AM
You would be amazed at the stuff found in people's bodies. Yes, there are the implants, but also nails, magnets, shrapnel. Ferromagnetic materials inside the body can be extremely dangerous for an MRI scan. This guy complained of severe pain and is only lucky that the twisting / moving of the nail didn't cause real damage. Everybody entering the MRI room should be screened with one of those new ferromagnetic-only detectors like they show on www.MRImetalDetector.com [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Cally
Location: Vail
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:53 PM
Nice to read a story with a positive outcome! I still wonder how he could not remember inhaling a nail! [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Steve
Location: Mars
on Apr 2, 2009 at 11:08 AM
How can you not know that you had a nail stuck up your nose? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: tim
Location: cf
on Apr 2, 2009 at 10:02 AM
wow thats just creapy that could of caused lots of problems [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Anonymous
Location: warsaw
on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:51 AM
that is some messed up stuff coughing something like that up. at least he got it up. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Rich
Location: Worcester, MA
on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:47 AM
The nail was always a foreign object, membrane or no membrane. I wonder what the doctor meant to say? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: chief
Location: slim
on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:14 AM
How does one not know that there was a nail up the nose??? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: tamora
Location: chicago
on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:05 AM
"Once it's in the nasal cavity like that, a little membrane forms around it and it becomes a foreign object." No, actually, once it's in the nasal cavity it becomes a foreign object. It doesn't take growing membranes or anything else. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Mommy of 2
Location: Springs
on Apr 2, 2009 at 09:01 AM
And this never bothered him before? And how do you get a nail up your nose in the first place? Im thinking Tyler is right... April Fools prank? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: gina
Location: texas
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:38 AM
talk about non invasive surgery ...whoa :) awesome! magnets should be the wave of the future. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: tara
Location: a place
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:38 AM
thats really nasty just saying... do you ever rememder putting the nail up your nose???? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: David
Location: Barrie, Ontario, Canada
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:37 AM
Not that unusual,apparently when I was 3 I shoved a green crayon up my nose,[hey I was 3!], and my mom thought she got it all out. Fast foward 35 years, and after a mighty sneeze, out pops this 1inch long chunk of crayon again! I asked my mother, and she told me the long forgotten story. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Davis
Location: Raleih
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:31 AM
O my god that is weird like I didnt know that waz possible [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: don
Location: iowa
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:27 AM
Last time I went for a MRI, I had to have a head x-ray just to check for metal filings in the eyesocket, I live in small town Iowa, somethings wrong with this story!!! [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Ed
Location: midwest
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:24 AM
Obviously written by someone who doesn't have English as a first language... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: sam
Location: ny
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:11 AM
How the hell did it get up there in the first place??? How weird!! [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Jack
Location: Conn.
on Apr 2, 2009 at 08:08 AM
April Fools is right the MRI would have ripped it out of his face. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: bootycall lisa
Location: beverly hills 90210
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:56 AM
that is sickness! i will milk goat on mountain now! [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Monique
Location: Canada
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:47 AM
Up here anyone who has worked with metal or in construction at any time has their facial bones x-rayed before an MRI. He's lucky it didn't exit the quickest way!! [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Earl
Location: Killeen Tx
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:38 AM
So... How'd the nail get into his nose? I mean 30 years? He must have been a very "bright" child... Or a very bored one... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Cal
Location: Boston, MA
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:34 AM
How did it get up there?? You left out the most interesting part... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Manakorn
Location: Thailand
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:31 AM
Is this a broadcast story? cause if it's print, the story is written not very unprofessionally written. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Kathie
Location: Dodge City, Kansas
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:31 AM
Is this an April Fools joke? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: johnny
Location: conshohocken
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:28 AM
yeah, but how did it get there!? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Tami
Location: SC
on Apr 2, 2009 at 07:02 AM
What a poorly written article. April Fools or not, it sounds as if it is written by an eigth grader. I expect this here in the South but not the West. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Tony
Location: Lower Dauphin High School
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:58 AM
That was gay [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Bill
Location: San Diego
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:55 AM
This is a story!? Isn't there more important topics you could write about? I probably would've chosen to write a story on the home foreclosure/credit fiasco and how many are illegal aliens milking the taxpayer yet again... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Jason
Location: NC
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:43 AM
This is one of the most poorly written articles I've ever read. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Karen
Location: Kansas
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:38 AM
Is this an April Fool story? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Bob
Location: Allentown, PA
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:19 AM
I suppose a comment about hitting the nail on the head (or head on the nail) would be too obvious... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: John
Location: Texas
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:12 AM
Wow this was news worthy.. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: bluepen
Location: IL
on Apr 2, 2009 at 06:07 AM
At least he received his daily iron requirement. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Tim
Location: PA
on Apr 2, 2009 at 05:47 AM
I think the April Fools joke here is that this article reads like they let some middle school newspaper flake write it. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Nick
Location: Washington
on Apr 2, 2009 at 05:31 AM
Why title the article "Man coughs up nail stuck in his nose for 30 years", when the doctors say the nail "COULD HAVE BEEN up his nose for 30 years"? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Bill
Location: Greenville
on Apr 2, 2009 at 05:26 AM
No where in this article does it say that the nail was in his nose for thirty years. Oh, except in the teaser lying headline. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: bill
on Apr 2, 2009 at 05:24 AM
What the article doesn't explain is that MRI machines create tremendous magnetic fields which would pull on the metal nail, causing the pain while in the machine, and dislodging the object, allowing it to be coughe up afterward. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Jim
Location: Arizona
on Apr 2, 2009 at 05:23 AM
So thats how the mexicans smuggle drugs here. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Kim Anthony
Location: NC
on Apr 2, 2009 at 04:51 AM
I have never read a more poorly written, less informative story in my life! You do not answer the most burning question "How?", and what's with "may have been 30 years"? Could it have been 10 minutes? Word choices were poor. The nail "becomes" a foreign object...like it was not to begin with...and the sentences seem randomly strung together, which leaves me to ask, "Huh?" [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Deb
Location: North Dakota
on Apr 2, 2009 at 04:48 AM
Ya know times are hard when you have to cough up your own nails.... [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: robin
Location: puxico mo.
on Apr 2, 2009 at 04:32 AM
it sound like he was trying out for the new pinhead movie.i wish i had his nose full of nickles. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Tom
Location: Wisconsin
on Apr 2, 2009 at 01:59 AM
Worst news story ever. Did a five year old write that? It looks like it took about a minute and thirty seconds to knock out. Let's get some meat on this story, guys. [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: Francesco
Location: Brooklyn
on Apr 2, 2009 at 12:45 AM
He's lucky he's still alive the force of the magnets in the MRI could have driven the nail straight through his brain [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: gibson5string
Location: Flat Rock, IL
on Apr 2, 2009 at 12:34 AM
April Fool's ????? [ Report Abuse ]
Posted by: matt
Location: santa barbara
on Apr 1, 2009 at 11:34 PM
that has got to be some of the worst writing i've read in a while. [ Report Abuse ] |
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Mr or Mrs Safescan...it is obvious you sell the product that you have told everyone to use. Unfortunatly it doesn't work and would not have found this nail in this patients nose. As an MRI tech not a sales person, I know that good patient care takes more than waving a "magic wand".
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Check the date this was posted - APRIL FOOLS!!
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I'm no genius, but since KKTV is a news station based in Southern Colorado, that it happened... in SOUTHERN COLORADO!! btw, if your from Ohio, I would avoid looking at the weather report on this website.
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That must've been from one of those crazy cocaine nights.
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WOW!!!!!!!!!!
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If the doctor made a gaffe, it's not the writer's fault. It says the doctor thinks it was there 30 years because if the patient doesn't recall, it probably happened as a child. Some of you aren't reading. It doesn't just mention 30yrs in the headline! Also, the vast majority of television pieces are written to read aloud. We generally speak more simplistically than we write. By contrast, you will see news articles for print publication written to about the 10th grade level. You won't see much beyond that because half of the population is functionally illiterate. Look how few people complaining about how this was written up have used proper spelling or grammar! Next, there are plenty of stories about bloody gun rampages and the economy. There's nothing wrong with a break from that every now and then! The story should have identified the doctor, hospital or town but I imagine they kept it short for the text-messaging types who lack an attention span.
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that is sick but im glad he got it out of his nose i would be careful of nails so it does not happen again. i wish him the best.
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Where did this take place?
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If they have no idea how it got there how do they know its been there for 30 years?
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what an idiot
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As someone who performs MRI's, stuff like this can happen occassionally but not on a daily basis. So please don't get mad at us when we ask you to clarify your past exposure to metal. If you answer I don't know or maybe, don't be surprised if your sent for an xray.
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Did I miss it? Does the article say where this happened?
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Of course, blame it on the foreigners.
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I am curious to hear how he must feel now that the nail is out. I'll bet he spends less money on pain killers.
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Im glad your ok uncle Prax
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