Three inch nail gets removed from man's brain

In this article, they say that they had to remove a 3 1/4 inch nail from this man's brain. It was lodged in the middle of his brain. He didn't even know about it. He had thought that the doctors were joking about it when they told him. While using a nail gun, above his head, it triggered the wrong way and went in his brain. He got rushed to the hospital by ambulance. They took X-rays right away. The X-rays had showed the nail lodged in his head. The 32 year old man asked them if it was a joke, that it was in there. The man's skull had stopped the nail from going farther into his brain. They said they removed the nail by putting two holes into him skull, on either side of the nail. Then the doctors pulled the nail out along with a piece of skull. The part of the skull that was removed for surgery was replaced with a titanium mesh. This surgery had taken two hours.