Man accidentally shoots nail into his heart, and lives
“I was just bringing the nail gun forward and I was on my tip-toes and I just didn’t quite have enough room and it fired before I was really ready for it,” Bergeson said.
The three-and-a-half inch framing nail fired straight into his heart at the speed of a .22 bullet.
“It didn’t really hurt. It just felt like it kind of stung me and I looked down and I didn’t see anything and I put my hand there and, ‘That’s not good!’,” Bergeson said.
He actually drove himself to the emergency room at a hospital 12 miles from the house. Doctors there rushed him to another hospital for surgery.
The nail missed a main artery in his heart by the thickness of a piece of paper.
He now has a scar but no permanent damage.
“Must have had somebody watching over me, because it was close,” Bergeson said. “Accidents, they can happen so quickly, and fortunately this one had a good ending.”
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