Wednesday, August 8, 2007

Woman Gets Lead Out of Head After 55 Years

After being plagued for 55 years with the torment of a pencil lodged in her head, a German woman has finally had it removed.

Margaret Wegner, now 59, was 4 years old when she fell while carrying the 3.15 inch-long pencil, which went through her cheek and into her brain.

"It bored right through the skin and disappeared into my head," Wegner told Germany's best-selling newspaper, Bild. "It hurt like crazy."

In celebration of the pending removal, prior to the surgery Mrs. Wegner sneezed out a letter of recommendation to the pencil manufacturer.

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