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Quote:TRUCKEE, California (Sept. 3) - Ron Hunt's friends and family have been calling him the ``Miracle Man'' ever since an 18-inch-long drill bit poked through his eye and out the back of his skull.

``It didn't seem possible for him to be alive, seeing him with a drill bit through his head,'' his nephew Ben Hunt said.

The construction worker from Truckee, California, lost an eye but survived the freak accident Aug. 15 with no brain damage after falling from a ladder and onto the drill.

The 1.5-inch diameter chip auger drill bit was still in his head when his brother, Chris Hunt, and nephew, Ben, met him in a hospital emergency room in Reno, Nevada.

``The nurses braced us for it before we saw him,'' Ben Hunt told the Sierra Sun newspaper of Truckee. ``It didn't seem real - it seemed like a movie. I wasn't sure what to feel.''

Doctors explained that the drill bit pushed his brain aside rather than pushing into it, which likely would have caused serious brain damage or death, Ben Hunt said.

While drilling above his head on Aug. 15, the six-foot ladder Ron Hunt was standing on started to wobble so he tossed the drill aside - as construction workers are trained to do. He then fell off the ladder face-first and onto the drill.

``By the time I was falling, and I let the drill go down, I was already on top of it,'' Ron Hunt told ABC's ``Good Morning America'' TV show on Tuesday.

``I ran my hands up the drill bit, up to my eye, and put my other hand in the back of my head and felt it coming through the back of my head,'' he said. ``And that's where pretty much the shock set in.''

He was taken by helicopter to Washoe Medical Center in Reno. After weighing their options, doctors essentially unscrewed the bit to remove it.

``We would have cut it off, but after a few minutes of drilling, we noticed that it was loose. And so we just put down our blade and twisted the bit,'' said Dr. Paul Ludlow, the surgeon who performed the operation.

His nephew thinks he'll be able to laugh about it some day.

``It's just going to be one of those stories,'' Ben Hunt told the Sierra Sun. ``He'll joke around with his glass eye and pop it out.''



09/02/03 21:23 EDT

Edited By drusilla on 1062967394

Gee, thanks for sharing.

You sadistic bitch! :moonie:

Like a railroad spike? Get it?

Kid Afrika Wrote:Gee, thanks for sharing.

You sadistic bitch! :moonie:

yeah, lol omg you sick f!!

id wear a cool pirate patch and say arrrrrh alot.

in contrast to naming yourself "brokenjaw" and fielding endless "brokeneye" jokes?

Quote:After weighing their options, doctors essentially unscrewed the bit to remove it.

I wonder if someone had to remind them "lefty-loosey, righty-tighty"?

i bet it was worth it for the really cool scar

I'd have to disagree here. If it was a cool story like "I saved 87 children and 4 puppy dogs from a burning building" then yeah, but if you're reason for a scar is "I'm a spaz and fell onto a drill" then you have no pride. When the reason for your accident was a bad combination of Issac Newton and Black and Decker you are loser extrodinaire

he could lie and say he got it saving 87 children and 4 puppies from a burning building. i don't have a good story behind my nickname "Soup" so I tell people I saved this girls life in high school who was choking on a noodle from her chicken noodle soup.

I was saving orphans and kitty cats when a drill bit shot through the wall propelled by an exploding propane tank? I don't even think a coke whore would give you a free handy for that line

As for the nickname, few people in college believed I had the nickname 'Boner' for no particualr reason either.

lefty loosey, I like that, I shall use it from now on cause I always get confused.

have you lived in a cave your whole life? who doesnt know lefty loosey, righty tighty???? you really are a communist, maybe even al queda.

I bet you still have to make an 'L' with your thumb and index finger on each hand to tell your left from right...not that I have to do that or anything

Doc Wrote:I bet you still have to make an 'L' with your thumb and index finger on each hand to tell your left from right...not that I have to do that or anything

I'm not ashamed to admit it, thought I don't actually make the L with my hand anymore, I just know that and sometimes when drunk or confused I just visualize it.

But it had helped me for many a years.

You truly are my brother. Between that and your favourite moment in a movie being when the German slowly stabs the guy in Saving Private Ryan, we're practically twins

OMG the scene in pvt ryan, I get goosebumps thinkin about it.

you remembered :loveya:

You really are my bestest buddy, from now on every week will be Gonzo appreciates Doc week.

can we have a parade in lock step?

Doc & I will have our own parade, we're elitists.

No man, the only parades that are cool are the ones when you roll all the military crap down the streets like they do in North Korea. Forget the All-County Pork Queen waving from a float, you need rockets and tanks and you've got a sweet little shindig