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Originally posted by Troubleshooter
One has to wonder if anything that was damaged was vital considering he's making a full recovery...
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Apparently people have been known to recover quite well from small, localized, clean injuries such as that from a nail gun, in fact much more than from a major damage such as a stroke. Even though the brain is obviously damaged, it can learn to work around the damaged area and compensate.
The accident happened on April 19, and on May 5 he made his first public appearance:
'Mejia is walking with minimal assistance and speaks somewhat slowly because his brain's speech center was affected, but his progress has been "remarkable," Quinonez [the doctor] said. With rehabilitation therapy, he should fully recover, he said.'
But seriously, searching for nail gun accidents indicates that there are several per year happening in the US. There is a reason that there are double safety systems on them! These are not fluke "accidents". People walking around with the trigger pulled, or even worse taping it down, should be fired!