An 86-year-old Arizona man is expected to make a full recovery after he was accidentally impaled through his eye socket with pruning shears.
Leroy Luetscher dropped a pair of pruning shears, which landed in the ground point-side down. When he went to pick up the shears, he lost his balance and fell face down on the handle, the University of Arizona College of Medicine in Tucson said in a release this week.
"The shears handle penetrated his eye socket underneath his eye and went down into his neck," officials said.
Doctors were able to remove the shears, rebuild his orbital floor with metal mesh and save his eye.
The shears were resting on the external carotid artery in his neck, doctors said.
"You wouldn't believe your eyes," said trauma surgeon Dr. Julie Wynne. "Half of the pruning shears was sticking out and the other half was in his head."
Now, about a month after the accident, Luetscher has some slight swelling and minor double vision, doctors said.
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