Photo: Doug Bergeson
Not today, death. Not today.
We all need to talk about Doug Bergeson. And why do we need to talk about him? Well because he is still alive today even after shooting himself in the heart with a high-powered nail gun. It all occurred when the 52-year-old was framing in a fireplace at home he’s building.
“I looked down [and] I couldn’t see anything,” Bergeson said.
It was not until Bergeson lifted his shirt that he saw the 3.5-inch nail was embedded in his chest. Roughly an inch of the nail was left sticking out.
“I could see the nail moving with my heartbeat,” he told the AP. “It was kind of twitching with every heartbeat.” Bergeson drove himself to a nearby medical center. Doctors there had him rushed to Aurora BayCare Medical Center in Green Bay, where he underwent open-heart surgery.
Dr. Alexander Roitstein, the cardiothoracic surgeon who performed Bergeson’s surgery, said the nail was within an eighth of an inch from a major artery.
“Had he been leaning just so or had his heart been in a different part of the beating cycle we could’ve had a very different situation on our hands,” Roitstein told The Daily Mail.
Bergeson only spent two days at the hospital and will be returning to his job soon. Now that’s a man’s man. Then again, it was only a nail to his chest and not screws in his penis like what happened to this poor dude.
