Surgeons in Arizona have saved the eye of an 86-year-old man whose skull was impaled with pruning shears in a backyard accident, the Arizona Daily Star reports.
A spokesperson for University Medical Center in Tucson says Leroy Luetscher was working in his yard when he dropped the hand pruners, which landed point-side up.
As Luetscher bent down to retrieve them, he lost his balace and fell face-down on the handle.
"You wouldn't believe your eyes," says Dr. Julie Wynne, assistant professor in the UA's Department of Surgery, in a UMC news release, the newspaper says.
Surgeons at UMC removed the gardening tool, rebuilt his orbital floor with metal mesh and saved Luetscher's eye, the spokeswoman says.
Four weeks after the surgery, Luetscher has slight swelling and minor damage to the affected eye, UMC says, according to the newspaper.
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