Man coughs up nail that was stuck in his nose for 30 years

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Man Coughs Up Nail Stuck In His Nose For 30 Years


Going to the doctor doesn’t get any weirder than this. A man gets an MRI, but ends up getting a lot more than that.

For Prax Sanchez a trip to the doctor's office was never so unusual. Not for Prax, instead everyone around him. He had quite the story to tell.

"I never had any idea there was any metal in my face," said Sanchez

That's right. Metal in his face. Literally.

"To us, he's a medical miracle. It's amazing. We've never seen anything like this," said Cheryl Paterson, a medical receptionist at an Old Colorado City family clinic.

This time around, Prax didn't come for a check-up of his blood pressure like he usually does. Instead, to show his doc what happened to him a few weeks ago.

"When I went to lay down on the MRI machine, I had a real pain on my right side under my eye," said Sanchez.

What was about to come next, no one would ever expect.

After his MRI, Sanchez coughed up a nail that was stuck in his nose.

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Watch the video... This guy is not a young dude. I can understand if this was a 31 or even 34 year old since you can at least understand a very young child shoving a nail up into his nose. But an old man? What... Was he 30 when the nail was pushed up there?

[Zoe]

Makes me wonder what he did for a living 30 years ago. Although if he was in some kind of accident during which he wouldn't notice a nail being lodged up his nose, I'm pretty sure he'd remember that. Freaky. You're not supposed to put metal into those MRI machines. No wonder he felt it behind his eye!

[Admin]

You're not supposed to put metal into those MRI machines. No wonder he felt it behind his eye!

I'm curious to know how the MRI dislodged the nail in the first place... Just weird timing for it to break free?

[Zoe]

I'm gonna guess either the heat caused some liquification of the snot-membrane around the nail, or the vibrations caused some liquefaction of all the nasal crap it was sitting in, jarring it loose.

[Charleene]

MRI machines can literally rip out peircings and stuff. It has to do with magnetic pull. So the nail was stuck in his nose, and when he got near the MRI it probably pulled on the nail in some way and ripped it out of its little membrane sac that it was in. There is rumor that some dark ink tattoos can become painful during an MRI because of the iron oxide content in them (iron being potentially magnetic).

Here is an article on that.


Here is info on the magnetic issues with MRIs and why they tell you no metal.

[Zoe]

I wonder WTF they do in regards to surgical pins and clips. Seriously thought that would only affect exposed metal, but then that's not very logical, is it... but then I suppose steel is not nearly as reactive as iron. A nickel alloy would render steel non-magnetic, but that would be toxic, wouldn't it... Nails are steel, not iron though... so perhaps it was the magnetism that caused the liquefaction, not heat at all.

[Naughty KP]

Gross,

Hey! Wouldn't that be an awesome party trick?

Go to blow out candles on a cake and blow a snotty nail out of your nose!

FREE CAKE!

NKP