How 1 Mistake Got a Pencil Stuck in a Girl's Head for 55 Years
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A woman ended up having to live with a pencil in her head for 55 years- how did the pencil get in there, and why wasn’t it removed for such a long time, even though her health suffered from it being there? Let’s get into it!
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i could've died happily knowing that there is no way that a pencil can get stuck inside of your brain for the next 55 years 😭
@ZphyZphyer
Жыл бұрын
Same
@trevorwilliams1783
Жыл бұрын
write it down... XD
@evantambolang3052
Жыл бұрын
Unless you're Homer Simpson, although in his case it was crayon.
@samuraiboi2735
Жыл бұрын
At least that pencil would give your brain to write down more personnel issues on how was your day like
@SummerTheGlaceon
11 ай бұрын
@@evantambolang3052I remember that episode lol
How tf does that even happen 😭
@slipperywhale7089
Жыл бұрын
Exactly what I was thinking lmao
@Vitch_senpai
Жыл бұрын
A literal Pencil mate 😭
@apollo_mystic8844
Жыл бұрын
fr
@Frostism
Жыл бұрын
HOW, IS IT ONE OF THOSE FULLY SHARPENED ONES??
@DELETLO
Жыл бұрын
Your head is not a pencil sharpener.
My grandfather for the vast majority of his life had buckshot embedded in his right foot. He got shot at 14 and died at 91, so that was 77 years. It was really bad because he was allergic to the painkillers they had available then, so spent a summer screaming in pain. They also had to replace on the of the bones in his foot with a titanium pin.
@mandiblackwell4668
Жыл бұрын
Oh God I wonder if he has a sulfate allergy, that was in ALL the pain killers for a while. Being injected with morphine sulfate with an allergy is scary and painful, but at always best to do around medical peeps. I'm guessing we both got lucky it wasn't given out in the field. Also be aware this stuff can be familial, I prolly get the allergy from my mom. Oh I also prolly still have gravel from a bicycling accident when I was 11. If I live to be old I'll request they investigate and find out.
@strawberri_.swxrlzz
11 ай бұрын
rip your grandfather :(
@random_person618
11 ай бұрын
This is the opposite of decreasing my phobia of death 💀 Sorry for your loss 😔
@G0RSHK0V
10 ай бұрын
At least he lived 91 years, that's on it's own is very impressive
@wish_ihad_ramen
10 ай бұрын
At least not like a real story I've read it's from a guy called Malcolm where his bro had parts of bullets on his brain and it was Malcolm's fault a bit bc he accidentally shot him
I fell and nearly got a sharp pencil in my face/eye. The close call still haunts me even though it was 30 some years ago
@SinanRawther
Жыл бұрын
ah god like did it peirce through??
@MbitaChizi
Жыл бұрын
Brew is my inspiration my parents said if I get 10k followers They'd buy me a mic for recording..begging u guys, literally begging
@Grizzdrop
Жыл бұрын
@@SinanRawther no but it was so close that I know how lucky I got.
@wil-fri
Жыл бұрын
I shot a Nerf gun directly to my eye, thanks it was the smallest one
@charbbigonee
Жыл бұрын
reminds me of how my first grade teacher always told us to avoid walking/running while eating lollipops so we don't trip and get them jammed in our throats
Just a heads up: "dislodged" means removed, or unstuck. "Lodged" means stuck.
@Shixaal
Жыл бұрын
He was using the words wrong, and it made me very confused.
@brianstraight9308
Жыл бұрын
"Dis" the latin prefix expressing negation ..
@phaedrapage4217
Жыл бұрын
@@criticalevent that was not the only time he said it though, there were at least a couple times he said dislodged but meant lodged.
@koriw1701
Жыл бұрын
That drove me crazy too!
@shhinysilver1720
Жыл бұрын
Is heads up a pun here?
It's not just pencils you have to worry about. A relative of mine was playing with knitting needles when they were younger and, one freak accident later, got one lodged in their brain. This would have been probably sixty years ago.
@cynthiaholland13
11 ай бұрын
Did they survive?
@remingtonryder
11 ай бұрын
@@cynthiaholland13 Yes, they made a full recovery.
I don't know how these medical facts could have been reported so incorrectly. The right temporal lobe of the brain is responsible for short-term memory and non-verbal memory. The speech centre is located in the *left temporal lobe* in a position called 'Broca's Area.'
@fandenovelas777
11 ай бұрын
That seems so... but nowdays researchs have proof that Broca Area... doesn't work as it seemed
@balls7828
2 ай бұрын
🤓
@101Volts
Ай бұрын
@@balls7828 Why do you post this?
This fear is already unlocked in me, try another 😂 I always say "DON'T RUN/WALK WITH DANGEROUS THINGS IN YOUR HAND" my parents and friends think I'm paranoid... This video confirms my fear and why I have it
@Defahn
Жыл бұрын
Show this video to them
"Hey, can I borrow a pencil?" Margret: Sure *pulls a pencil out of her head*
@MuichiroTokito301
8 ай бұрын
Lol
@pavelcapote1255
7 ай бұрын
Nvm you can keep it 😂
@Documents_Of_Carnage
6 ай бұрын
"I think I'm just gonna ask the teacher for one..."
@giovanitellez3514
4 ай бұрын
😳
My ex launched a pencil in the lunchroom back in the 90’s and it ended up into a teacher’s eye. It blinded her. They never found out it was him who did it. He feels horrible about it. I asked him if he thought contacting her to apologize would help him. I personally think it would help his conscience. He has a ton of nightmares, almost nightly.
@F_L_U_X
Жыл бұрын
Aww. Your poor ex... How dare her blindness cause him guilt!
@shivamkanichhe8839
Жыл бұрын
@@F_L_U_X Are you saying that in a sarcastic way because it did blind her
@TheGuruStud
Жыл бұрын
@@shivamkanichhe8839 they're saying he deserves the stress
@F_L_U_X
Жыл бұрын
@@shivamkanichhe8839 yes
@UmatsuObossa
Жыл бұрын
He shoukd apologize even if it doesn't help him. SHE deserves his apology.
It's highly unlikely that the pencil "barely" missed the aorta. The ascending aorta leaves the heart's left ventricle, descends into the thorax (thoracic aorta) and then into the abdomen (abdominal aorta). Most likely, you meant that the pencil barely missed the internal carotid artery (a branch of the carotid artery which is a branch of the aorta) or one of its branches which transverses the brain or even the external carotid artery or its branches. All such lacerations are potentially critical.
@rackel8195
Жыл бұрын
I was gonna say, isn't the aorta in the heart?😅
@koolkittykat04
Жыл бұрын
I was gonna say that too! Like, the aorta doesn’t go into your head…
@inactivechannel3004
Жыл бұрын
Yeah, i knew something was off when they mentioned the aorta
@anthonykarnes6804
11 ай бұрын
Respect
@JohnCarter-qv8qo
11 ай бұрын
I was super confused, Im not that smart. Yet even I knew this. Such a careless mistake.
I remember hearing a story on the radio like 20 years ago about a kid being excited on his birthday and jumping on to his bed and getting a pencil through the heart.
@avixs1543
Жыл бұрын
I could have lived a happy life not knowing this information
@mandiblackwell4668
Жыл бұрын
When I was like 20 I went to jump on a bed and my bf at the time turned around with pillows and I leapt into his elbow instead. Gave me a black eye, also made me a lot more cautious of jumping on things.
@DragonOfTheMortalKombat
11 ай бұрын
OK I don't expect that kid to survive, thanks for this delicious and definitely not 'sends shivers down you spine' info Couldn't have lived my life without it.
@F_L_U_X
11 ай бұрын
@@DragonOfTheMortalKombat Welcome
@drakeleon3691
11 ай бұрын
@@DragonOfTheMortalKombathe actually lived
yeah. never, ever, ever pull something out that is lodged into you if you get into an accident. especially in the head. it's acting like a plug, and if you yank it out, you're going to start bleeding like crazy. let the hospital do that so they can take care of it right. it's way, way too risky otherwise.
On running with scissors: In my high school art class we used X-Acto knives but we weren't allowed to walk anywhere with them. My teacher (who was a cool hippy) said one previous student was just casually walking with it in her hand, swinging her arms, when it went right into her leg but it was so sharp she didn't even feel it and just kept walking until someone said she was bleeding all over.
When you think about it, the pencil is a lethal weapon, in the right (or wrong) hands, you can effectively write someone out of existence with a deft swing at the right body part...
@halisterfernando9160
Жыл бұрын
John Wick knows how to use it :D
If you ever end up with something in your chest NEVER pull it out yourself.
@blacklabel130
Жыл бұрын
must be a reflex of incomfort, but yea you are right the complication bleeding right after and dying of blood loss isnt something everyone think about
@NANAbingbangboom
Жыл бұрын
yeah xenomorphs will find there way out
@rewandemontay
Жыл бұрын
Especially if a machette is occupying your lungs.
@kirkmorrison6131
Жыл бұрын
The same with the leg or arm it can cause you to bleed out
@RandiJo69
Жыл бұрын
Just ask Steve Irwin :(
I'm sure there's gonna be a lot of people talking about the Simpsons episode HOMR, where it's discovered that Homer has had a crayon lodged in his brain all this time.
I always took the whole 'don't run with scissors' thing seriously. Probably helped that my dad always accompanied it with the story of a girl he knew who did and lost her vision.
I like how it shows the bullet with it's casing inside the brain
@shhinysilver1720
Жыл бұрын
Must’ve thrown it like a dart
How did she not end up with fatal brain infections?
@UmatsuObossa
Жыл бұрын
Antibiotics
@MicroDogland
Жыл бұрын
@@UmatsuObossa the metals could cause a mass array of problems
@UmatsuObossa
11 ай бұрын
@@MicroDogland The only metal in a pencil is a bit of aluminum around tge eraser, which some pencils don't even have. Aluminum d Isn't extremely harmful and that end wasn't in her brain.
@noaharkadedelgado
11 ай бұрын
@@UmatsuObossawhat about the led
@UmatsuObossa
11 ай бұрын
@@noaharkadedelgado graphite isn't metal.
I have heard about people who have bullets or nails stuck inside their heads, yet I didn't know this one. I feel excruciating pain from stress while watching this 😬 It's amazing though, seeing Margret even able to find goodness in life despite all the pain, unbelievable story! 👏👏👏
We need people to stand up for the unfortunate, imagine getting shot in the head, barely recovering, still having the bullet inside your noggin, and your allowed to go back to work like everythings normal and your just living a full life.
Took; "I just have a pencil on my mind" to a whole new level.
@onoybeuh
Жыл бұрын
what tf does that even mean
@Karter_0
Жыл бұрын
@@onoybeuh When something is on someone's mind means they're thinking about it, this brought it to the next level implying that something terrible legitimately happened. Such as this video talking about the pencil.
@onoybeuh
Жыл бұрын
@@Karter_0 I know that but nobody says "I have a pencil on my mind"
@Karter_0
Жыл бұрын
@@onoybeuh I'm talking about the possible scenarios when people do. or they just think of it.
@thegreatajar7818
Жыл бұрын
@@onoybeuh thats a joke.
this is the stuff from the likeness of Final Destination but with a somewhat happy ending. also, imagine 55 years with a pencil stuck in your head. insanity.
I have also lived my entire life with something stuck in my body. A spooky skeleton man.
@soumilghosh5156
4 ай бұрын
Same here
I wish they brought back the animations of brew and some of the other characters
imagine going to the doctors and starting the conversation with ‘…yeah so 55 years ago a pencil got stuck in my head-‘
I remember that i accidentally stabbed myself with a pencil when i was a kid in school, i was balancing on my chair back and fourth like we all did back then and thought it would be funny to see if my pencil could support me so i put it between me and the table edge, then my chair fell forward and pushed it in (Not very much) but i had some graphite stuck under my skin for many years until it was impossible to see it anymore ahah
@susanmiller4159
Жыл бұрын
Same thing with my knee. I forget how it got stuck in there but there it stayed for years. Finally disappeared. Was just gone one day.
@wil-fri
Жыл бұрын
I got a small piece stuck at my hand, I got it out very recently
One of my favorite KZreadrs! Thanks for making this great content.
I was in a car crash while in my bicycle had multiple punctures and cuts from broken glass. After treatment I had headaches for days then one day I felt something in my hair. It was a bloody piece of glass I yanked out from my head. All the pain went away glad I found it before it got worse.
@sophierobinson2738
11 ай бұрын
My father combed bits of flak out of his hair years after WWII. They had embedded in his skull, and worked their way out over the years.
@doll9340
2 ай бұрын
Please don't ever pull things out of your body! Go see a doctor!
That pencil must have been so uncomfortable I hope the pencil is okay
@nezuko8432
Жыл бұрын
Yeah
@poka26ev2
Жыл бұрын
They say “a short pencil is better than a long memory”. myth busted
@stevelansfordsaveukraine8751
Жыл бұрын
yeah, both her & the pencil have some ptsd now.
This reminds me of how they found a crayon in Homer Simpson’s brain, and when they removed it , he got smart.
And this is why I don't walk with any item
@2k7u
Жыл бұрын
pov: the pencil is sitting vertically on the ground, completely stable, waiting for someone to commit the mistake, or rather, misstep.
good thing it missed the aorta, maybe they meant carotid?😂
With accidents like that, who needs John Wick? Lolz
Reminds of a day in high school where I fell asleep, sitting up, head propped up on my hand. The issue is I was still holding a *very* sharp pencil and was awoken when I jabbed myself in the neck. Everyone got a laugh when I jumped out of my seat suddenly, and fortunately that was all. TLDR; Don’t sleep holding sharp objects.
@Blahaj964
11 ай бұрын
Did you have to go to the hospital
@seashellcatgirl2312
11 ай бұрын
Dang
The only one who could survive John Wick’s pencil attack
She just pulled a Homer simpson😂😂😂
@johnsonm.c6084
Жыл бұрын
@@_rainwater i forgor
Am I confused or does dislodged now mean lodged? Because you use them both to mean the same thing several times, switching back and forth between the two terms throughout the video.
@Ducky69247
Жыл бұрын
@@matirion that's not it
@KF-zb6gi
Жыл бұрын
@@matirion how confusing
@CoreyCantwell-jv4be
11 ай бұрын
@@KF-zb6gi it's not that confusing, @matirion is just wrong. The video also uses the wrong word several times, while also using the right word a bunch more times. You know the difference, you can tell by context which word is intended. The fact that such a weird mistake was made is the most confusing thing.
New fear unlocked
@kenner7990
Жыл бұрын
Lolll😂😂
@mm-cc7fj
11 ай бұрын
Pencilphobia
@UltraCenterHQ
11 ай бұрын
@@_moonlumenI feel like that would be a lot worse
There is literally the plot of a Simpson's episode.
Of course it's going to miss the AORTA. That's in the chest and abdomen
@jaswku61618
Жыл бұрын
I literally wrote the same thing- and thought I was the only one who caught that!!!!
@joshjosh6714
Жыл бұрын
@@jaswku61618 right? there must be something very wrong if her aorta reacher her brain
Getting a pencil stuck inside your head for 55 years is crazy 💀
Seems like a Fast track | hastened *Lobotomy* tbh. Something on a much larger scale happened to an american rail road worker too!
@allisonmccune9556
Жыл бұрын
Really?!😮 Can you please explain? You have peeked my curiosity!
This is what I wait for, Brew’s updates
As someone with chronic migraines, I cannot even imagine the pain that would come from having a pencil lodged through my head 😖
Bro really took "brainstorm" to another level, happy she's ok tho.
The only times I had foreign objects imbedded in my body was surgical pins to correct broken bones that were later removed. One two in my right index finger and two in my left metacarpal and carpal of my pinky.
"accidentally got a pencil in her brain" Well yeah it wouldn`t be deliberate would it 🤨
fairly certain i have a piece of pencil lead stuck in my hand, but at this point its been so long i only have vague memory of the incident, although the dark mark under the skin of my palm certainly supports the idea
@kirkmorrison6131
Жыл бұрын
I have one in my hand from whe 8:20 re a bully, stabbed me back in 1963:or 64. It is 8:20 barely visible today but it bothers me if I get pressure on just the right spot.
My dad has a scar and about 3mm of graphite just under his jaw, since 1955. It's always been a very obvious scar, but moreso since he grew a beard. But the story of how he got the scar, embedded graphite is what makes me freak out when I see kids playing or running with a pencil in their hand.
I've had a piece of graphite stuck in my foot for a decade. All because my school only allowed mesh backpacks. I'd stepped on my bag by accident and the pencil stuck me and the tip stayed in there.
55 YEARS?!
I wonder if there was any risk of splinters from the pencil or if they were too small to worry about.
@kuroi-higanbana
Жыл бұрын
The pencil she had in her brain was made out of slate and not wood. It's not much better, but I guess it is less likely that splinters will occur
I swear to God, I had nothing to do with this!
The fact that her brain was okay… wow!
I feel like we haven't had Grill, Chill and Quiz on the show for a while. Bring them back!
Woah super new!! What's up brew! I love your videos! I'm never this early to one!
I thought our skull is strong enough to prevent any outer objects from harming our brain 😭
@doll9340
2 ай бұрын
Depends on the force
She's lucky af. Its gotta be one in a million rate of survival
Wow, the Simpsons really do predict everything.
Brew is like the cool policeman uncle who tells you stories from his job
I swear idk how y’all are always finding the most out of pocket stories🗿
I don’t really get why they didn’t take out the pencil sooner. Just doesn’t make much sense to me.
@Frostism
Жыл бұрын
Probably internal bleeding.
@swapnilmankame
Жыл бұрын
Brain Surgery wasn't that advanced 55 years ago
@niaram
11 ай бұрын
in the video it explains that surgery wasn’t that advanced yet, there was a huge risk of death
THIS is what I like to see, straight to the story, no bs. good asf video
This was Truly terrifying
Few days ago, I was on the concrete and I fell down headfirst and my left part of my head was scraped, a dud on my left hand, and two scrapes on my knees. Two scrapes were one by my left ear, and one under my eye. I picked myself up and brought myself home. A few days later(two-three days ago), I fell again by some thorn weeds. My right leg was bleeding, but now there is no effect. 5 days ago, my head was completely recovered.
moral of the story: never run holding a pencil, because it can end up inside ur brain
I thought it was John Wick who put the pencil 😂
Looks like I’ll never run with a pencil ever again
She got attached with the pencil 🤣
Your content keep improving
If you are tempted to do bad thing, remember the guilt will punish you forever
My brain refuses to work 🥲
As a kid I actually did listen and never ran with anything sharp in my hands because I understood how it could be dangerous
She apparently went into a bar with John Wick. "With a facken pencil! Who does that?"
That's why when running with sharp objects, you point them downwards. That way you run even faster and if you trip over, you instead stab your leg instead of your eye.
Me when I "accidentally" get an entire pencil stuck in my skull of tosis.
Decades ago (before I met him) my military hospital Corpsman husband, had a USMC young man - - stagger into the barracks with a knife in his chest! He shouted to others (who were about to pull the knife out) ‘Leave the knife in’‼️ He stabilized that young man, while the ambulance was on its way. The USN surgical doctor who operated on that man, later personally commended my husband because if that knife had been pulled out - - death would have happened rather quickly.
So that one Simpsons episode about Homer having a crayon in his brain was based on real-life events??? Reality is stranger than fiction.
Ok I may be loosing it- but in the video it said “luckily the pencil had missed the aorta” - um- Well yeah- the aorta is in your chest, right??? So given that the pencil pierced into the right side of her face, it would clearly be no where near the Aorta, right? Or am I missing something???
@carl11547
Жыл бұрын
Fortunately, the pencil missed the kneecap!
Real life Homer Simpson
now she knows what it's like for homer
Oh, God I feel very bad for this girl
I love your videos btw
I am 13 right now but I remember when I was seven, I fell to the ground where there were shattered glass pieces. A big piece of glass went inside my right knee but I didn't show any emotion. I think that piece of glass is still stuck in my right knee to this day and there's also a scar left of it. I don't really feel pain there so I don't know if I should get it checked or not.
@doll9340
2 ай бұрын
Definitely get checked
This lady is built different to have lived such a beautiful life
Lodged, not dislodged... Still a very interesting story, so thanks!
I wonder if she got to keep the part as a memento or if they classified it as medical waste.
Way to end the video! Got me ready to rewatch the AirPod episode haha
i'm wondering how this happened
I have a pencil tip in my chest from a similar accident I was lucky mine was just the tip, the placement was really dangerous
how did that cat scan not rip the pencil right out of her brain? arent the eraser holders at the end super magnetic? especially on old pencils
@krzysztofczarnecki8238
Жыл бұрын
It's the MRI that has intense magnetic field, CAT scan just takes a multitude of X-ray images from all angles using a rapidly spinning x-ray tube and detector assembly, and reconstructs a 3D image out of that.
@avixs1543
Жыл бұрын
Yeah MRI is the one to worry about
new brew video! I couldn't touch scissors until I was 10 so.
"bullet dislodged in his skull" no, "lodged" when something is stuck it is "lodged" when that stuck thing gets REMOVED THEN it has become "dislodged"
One time i was clapping, but i was holding a really sharp pencil, and it stabbed through part of my hand.
Ok, I guess in a weird, sick way, my overly vivid & gruesome imagination actually saved me here. Having been told by adults that running with a sharp object in my hand might result in my tripping or running into something & accidentally stabbing the sharp object deep into my head somewhere, I couldn't stop thinking of scissors imbedded point first in my cheek & pencils stabbing me in the eyes. That kept me from running with sharp objects, & I never ended up hurting myself that way... As a child, my sister was jumping with a sharp stick in her hand & ended up in the ER. Fortunately, the stick just caused a deep cut about an inch below her eye & didn't get lodged in her head, so stitches took care of it. My Dad had longish hair in the 70's & ended up with a drill bit drilled a tiny way into his forehead when his forelock caught in the mechanism while he was working on some shelves & his hair wrapping around the bit pulled the drill against him before he could shut it off. Again, trip to the ER, but also again, nothing ended up lodged in his head. Maybe my family are just lucky? Edit: it occurs to me that between my sister & my dad, I was pretty familiar with the ER waiting room growing up. Maybe that's where I got my overly vivid & gruesome imagination? Just a thought...
I swear, Brew loves to freak us out with horror documentaries, great job on giving us anxiety! JK. Love you. Subbed.
For the beginning, I don't even *think* about running with scissors. There's no space I my portable to run anyway
"hey do you have a pencil I can borrow" "Oh yeah totally. New or vintage?"