Colorado Springs man coughs up nail

Published April 5, 2009 4:00am ET



COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – Prax Sanchez says he doesn’t recall any serious hammer-and-nail mishaps in his past.

Yet doctors administering an MRI on the 72-year-old Colorado man last month abruptly stopped the exam to tell him there seemed to be something metallic in his face.

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