{"id":466,"date":"2009-07-23T22:40:52","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asylumeclectica.com\/grim\/?p=466"},"modified":"2016-01-02T23:56:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-03T05:56:41","slug":"morbid-fact-du-jour-for-july-23-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/?p=466","title":{"rendered":"Morbid Fact Du Jour For July 23, 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Today&#8217;s Sharp Yet Truly Morbid Fact!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A woman who lived with an 8-centimeter (3.1-inch) pencil lodged in her brain for 55 years has had most of it removed in a complex operation in August, 2007. She is now looking forward to a life without headaches and nosebleeds and hopes to also regain her sense of smell. &#8220;When I was four years old I fell down in Dessau with a pencil in my hand. The pencil bored its way through my skin &#8212; and disappeared in my head,&#8221; Margret Wegner, 59, told the mass circulation newspaper Bild. &#8220;It was incredibly painful.&#8221; The pencil missed her optic nerve and a major artery by just millimeters. A doctor treated the wound, but no one dared to operate on her brain. She decided to have the life-threatening operation after 55 years, and it was successfully carried out by a surgeon in a Berlin hospital. Most of the pencil &#8212; six centimeters of it &#8212; was removed but the 2-centimeter-long tip has grown in so tightly that it will remain lodged in her brain.<\/p>\n<p>Culled from: Spiegel Online<br \/>\nGenerously donated by: Lady Morgana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s Sharp Yet Truly Morbid Fact! A woman who lived with an 8-centimeter (3.1-inch) pencil lodged in her brain for 55 years has had most of it removed in a complex operation in August, 2007. She is now looking forward to a life without headaches and nosebleeds and hopes to also regain her sense of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sundry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6205,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/6205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decidedlygrim.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}