A WOMAN has had an 8cm pencil removed from her skull – 55 years after it got stuck there.
Margaret Wegner, 59, tripped when she was four and saw the pencil she was holding "disappear" into her skull.
But doctors throughout the years deemed surgery to remove it too risky despite her frequent crippling headaches.
Margaret, of Dessau, eastern Germany, said: "Finally I had enough."
She had a scan and doctors in Berlin removed most of the pencil, which was dangerously close to her optic nerve.
Thankfully Margaret’s sight is unaffected but the doctors were unable to remove 2cm of tip as it was surrounded by nerves.
Husband Ulli, 55, a famous boxing coach, said: "She’s as brave as she has been these last 55 years."
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