A 63-year-old Pole suffering headaches and lack of appetite was reportedly completely unaware that a 12-cm-long knife-blade stuck in his head was the source of his woes.
Physicians in Bialystok, eastern Poland, were shocked to find the knife blade lodged in the cranium of the unidentified patient.
The man suspects he sustained the injury after falling off a kitchen stool when he was drunk, but noticed no blood and had no major pain at the time. He later found the handle of his favourite knife but the blade had mysteriously vanished.
"The knife blade entered under the right ear near the sideburn and went to the base of the skull near the roof of the mouth. It stopped on the jawbone. It could have caught major blood vessels and nerves but did absolutely no harm," physician Marek Rogowski told Poland's Gazeta Wyborcza.
Physicians simply pulled the blade out of the man's head without any complications, Rogowski said.
The man was sent home with a clean bill of health after only two days in hospital.
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