Blind Irishman sees with the aid of son's tooth in his eye!

[lonestarnot]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080228/ts_afp/irelandbritainhealthoffbeat;_ylt=Ark0WpMplN.zANDALJ2ZacKGWo14

Thu Feb 28, 1:30 AM ET



DUBLIN (AFP) - An Irishman blinded by an explosion two years ago has had his sight restored after doctors inserted his son's tooth in his eye, he said on Wednesday.

Bob McNichol, 57, from County Mayo in the west of the country, lost his sight in a freak accident when red-hot liquid aluminium exploded at a re-cycling business in November 2005.

"I thought that I was going to be blind for the rest of my life," McNichol told RTE state radio.

[Warpy]

1. Gotta love that socialized medicine

They seem to be coming up with the damndest things.

[mr_hat]

2. What's his son gonna do

with no tooth?

[tuvor]

3. A cuspid, I presume?

[Sal Minella]

5. Unnnnngh.........That took me WAY too long........

:)

thanks for proof that I have at least one functioning brain cell left.....

[tuvor]

7. Yay, someone got it!

:)

[Sal Minella]

8. Central incisor, lateral incisor, ______________

aka -- iTooth. heh.

Amazing how some things just remain in the mind after one ceases to retain any idea WHERE one left the car keys......

I can still do "Kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus, species" too.

Maybe someday you'll put up a post where I can use that one.......:)

[Cronus Protagonist]

4. I'm sure there's lots of jokes there....

In Irish bars, there will be no shortage of humor on this one...

"He punched me in the eye and knocked me tooth out!"

"He gave me a toothy wink"

[applegrove]

6. That is so weird!

[mzmolly]

9. Fascinating stuff.

Thanks :hi: