Nail in Head Doesn’t Add Up for Victim

Construction worker Travis Bogumill was shot with a nail gun that drove a 3 1/4-inch nail all the way into his skull, and the only difference he can see is that he’s not quite the math whiz he used to be.

Bogumill, 21, walked out of a hospital Thursday after surgeons removed the nail. A co-worker at a construction site accidentally bumped his head with the nail gun six days earlier, and the nail went in so deep that the only thing visible was a small hole in the scalp.

He remained conscious, turned to his co-worker and said, “You just nailed me in the head,” Bogumill recalled. An X-ray showed the nail had lodged in the right side of his brain, halfway between his ear and the top of his head.

Dr. John Lamoureux said the nail lodged in an area of the brain typically involved in processing math.