BATTLE GROUND, Wash. - A bizarre accident left a woman with a knife lodged deep in her head and what is so amazing is that she actually survived.
Townsen was pulling weeds at her home in Battle Ground when she set a knife down with the blade up and then tripped when she went to turn around, landing right onto the knife.
A neighbor girl who was shooting baskets across the street when the accident happened and immediately ran inside to get her mom, Kelly Eldred.
When the ambulance arrived, the paramedics could not believe what they were seeing and police wanted to know if a violent attacker was on the loose.
Meanwhile, there was Townsen with a knife lodged in her brain, through her left eye socket. Amazingly, she said it didn't hurt.
"It didn't," she said. "No pain at all."
After all this time, Townsen still wanted to know how and why she survived. The answer is in her CAT scan, which shows the knife just missed her brain stem and also just missed the main artery to her brain.
So how did Dr. Grewe get the knife safely out of Townsen's head? As it turned out, it wasn't that hard at all.
"We took it out and nothing happened," he said. "It's like, remember the Sword in the Stone?"
There was barely any bleeding and her eyeball was somehow untouched.