never run with pencils!

This poor child wasn't necessarily running, but she fell on a pencil! 55 years later they remove as much of it as possible.

"Margret Wegner fell over carrying the pencil in her hand when she was four.

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It narrowly missed vital parts of her brain. At the time no one dared operate, but now technology has improved sufficiently for doctors to be able to remove it.

Most of the pencil, some three inches long, was taken out in an operation at a private Berlin clinic, but the tip had grown in so firmly that it was impossible to remove."

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Pencil removed from woman's head after 55 years