An odd home for a pool-cue tip
A British woman lived the last 12 years without realizing she had the tip of a pool cue up her nose. Mother-of-three Chantel Faill, now 31, was accidentally stabbed through the roof of her mouth by a friend’s pool cue when she was 20. The wound appeared to heal, though Faill later suffered frequent headaches and sinus trouble. “It felt like a huge buildup of pressure, and I could never understand it,” she says. The source of her problems became clear recently when she coughed, and the pool-cue tip shot into her mouth.
Moore and Kutcher's open door policy
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