Unbelievable! Man Cheats Death By Surviving 6ft Pole That Pierced Through His Head

This is the type of story you hear and just open
your mouth in disbelief but Eduardo Leite, a 24-
year old construction worker from Brazil is lucky
to be alive after he survived a 6-foot metal bar
that fell from above and pierced his head. The
bar had fell from the fifth floor of a building
under construction, went through Leite’s hard
hat, entered the back of his skull and exited
between his eyes, chief os staff at Rio de Janeiro’s
Miguel Couto Hospital, Luiz Alexnadre Essinger
said, adding: ‘It really was a miracle’ that Leite
survived. The accident and surgery took place on
Wednesday.
Doctors successfully withdrew the iron bar from
Eduardo Leite’s skull during a five-hour surgery.
‘He was taken to the operating room, his skull
was opened, they examined the brain and the
surgeon decided to pull the metal bar out from
the front in the same direction it entered the
brain.’ Essinger said. He said Leite was conscious
when he arrived at the hospital and told him
what had happened and that Leite was lucid and
showed no negative consequences after the
operation. ‘Today, he continues well, with few
complaints for a five-hour-long surgery,’ Essinger
said. ‘He says he feels little pain.’
‘They told me he was lying down (in the
ambulance) with the bar pointing upward,’ said
Leite’s wife, Lilian Regina da Silva Costa.
Continuing, she said, ‘He was holding it and his
face covered in blood. His look was as if nothing
had happened. When he arrived he told the
doctors he wasn’t feeling anything, no pain,
nothing. It’s unbelievable.’
Ruy Monteiro, the hospital’s head of
neurosurgery, told the Globo TV network that
Leite escaped by just a few centimeters from
losing one eye and becoming paralyzed on the
left side of his body. He said the bar entered a
‘non-eloquent’ area of the brain, an area that
doesn’t have a specific, major known function.
Leite is expected to remain hospitalized for at
least two weeks.