Ever been so drunk that you forgot getting stabbed in the face? That’s what happened to a 35-year-old, unnamed man in Vietnam. He did not find out about the chopsticks lodged in his skull until 5 months after the fight.
What happened?
On November 25th, the man headed to Cuba Friendship Hospital in Dong Hoi, to seek relief from the intense headaches he’d been suffering from for the past 5 months, along with fluid discharge and loss. CT scans indicated that the man was suffering from tension pneumocephalus, which is essentially a life-threatening increase in intracranial – inside the skull – pressure.
Upon further examination, doctors were able to find the absurd source of the condition. A pair of chopsticks had penetrated his nose and gone straight to his brain. The staff weren’t the only ones surprised at this. The man himself was shocked, as he could not remember any situation where chopsticks had entered his nose.
But…how?
Eventually, the man was able to vaguely recall a drunken brawl he had been in 5 months prior, where he had been stabbed in the face. However, he could not remember what he had been stabbed with. Though he had gone to the hospital the following day, doctors did not find any chopsticks, and found his nose to be unharmed.
Social media users cracked jokes that he’d become smart like the cartoon character Homer Simpson, from the Simpsons, after he had a crayon removed from his brain. Another joked that he found a “chopstick in his noodle” (another word for brain).
Fortunately, through endoscopic surgery, doctors were able to remove the chopsticks, which turned out to be a singular chopstick broken in half.
The man is now in stable condition and awaiting discharge.
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