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Some illnesses and injuries are so inconspicuous that a person can live with them for years without suspecting them existence. Like an American who took almost two years leak of own brain fluid for a runny nose, German citizen managed to live 15 years with a pencil in his head, reports Spiegel. As the representatives of the university hospital said Aachen, North Rhine-Westphalia, 24-year-old Afghan German origin came to them for help back in 2011. Young the person complained of persistent headaches, colds and worsening vision in one eye. For a long time, doctors couldn’t understand what was happening. did not do computed tomography. It turned out that in my head the patient all this time was a 10-centimeter pencil. is he located directly above the young man’s right eye socket and placed on it pressure. A German who wanted to remain anonymous could not explain where did the pencil come from in his head, but later remembered how unsuccessfully fell in childhood. Doctors removed a foreign body from the head young men, and he soon recovered. Only at the end of May, after almost a year after the operation, the doctors decided to devote to this case a separate conference, thanks to which reporters learned about it. This is not the first time that a person has managed for a long time live with a foreign object in your body. So, in 2007 elderly German woman suffering from headaches and nosebleeds, they removed a pencil that had been there for 50 years.
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