Man survives a knife stuck in his head for hours

Is this not a Miracle ?. A Brazilian man who was stabbed in the head during an argument survived despite the knife being lodged in his skull for over three hours. Juacelo Nunes de Oliveira was at a party in a bar in the city of Agua Branca, in northeastern Piaui state. He  was stabbed four times, three times in the torso, with one wound perforating a lung, and once in the head.

He was first taken for treatment at a nearby hospital before being transferred to the Emergency Hospital of Teresina, a city 100 kilometers (62 miles) away -- with the knife handle protruding from his head all the while.

"He had the knife lodged in his head for this whole period but he was not aware of it," he said. "We believe the shock and a bit of the drinking may have helped him not to understand the knife was still in his head."

The knife crossed his head just behind the optical nerve, got very close to the olfactory nerve and (was) just a fraction from the gustatory nerve. He could have been blinded and could have lost his senses of smell and taste, but none of that happened and he is alive and healthy.

It took the hospital surgery team two and half hours to complete, and was considered to be a success.