{"id":40784,"date":"2017-08-16T06:05:14","date_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:05:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=40784"},"modified":"2017-08-16T06:05:14","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T06:05:14","slug":"man-accidentally-shoots-nail-into-his-heart-and-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/man-accidentally-shoots-nail-into-his-heart-and-lives.html","title":{"rendered":"Man accidentally shoots nail into his heart, and lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">Man accidentally shoots nail into his heart, and lives<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;I was just bringing the nail gun forward and I was on my tip-toes and I just didn&#8217;t quite have enough room and it fired before I was really ready for it,&#8221; Bergeson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The three-and-a-half inch framing nail fired straight into his heart at the speed of a .22 bullet.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;It didn&#8217;t really hurt. It just felt like it kind of stung me and I looked down and I didn&#8217;t see anything and I put my hand there and, &#8216;That&#8217;s not good!&#8217;,&#8221; Bergeson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">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.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">The nail missed a main artery in his heart by the thickness of a piece of paper.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">He now has a scar but no permanent damage.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;color: #000000\">&#8220;Must have had somebody watching over me, because it was close,&#8221; Bergeson said. &#8220;Accidents, they can happen so quickly, and fortunately this one had a good ending.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/health\/2017\/08\/15\/man-accidentally-shoots-nail-into-his-heart-and-lives.html<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"fb-background-color\">\n\t\t\t  <div \n\t\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \n\t\t\t  \tdata-href = \"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/health\/man-accidentally-shoots-nail-into-his-heart-and-lives.html\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\n\t\t\t  \tdata-lazy = \"true\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\n\t\t\t\tdata-mobile=true>\n\t\t\t  <\/div><\/div>\n\t\t  <style>\n\t\t    .fb-background-color {\n\t\t\t\tbackground: #ffffff !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t.fb_iframe_widget_fluid_desktop iframe {\n\t\t\t    width: 630px !important;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t  <\/style>\n\t\t  ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Man accidentally shoots nail into his heart, and lives &#8220;I was just bringing the nail gun forward and I was on my tip-toes and I just didn&#8217;t quite have enough room and it fired before I was really ready for it,&#8221; Bergeson said. 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