January 19, 2005
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LITTLETON, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado construction worker who shot himself in the head with a nail gun - an accident he didn't discover until he went to the dentist with a nagging toothache - said he'll change his line of work.
"I'll make pizzas," Patrick Lawler, 23, said Tuesday. Lawler, who may be released from the hospital as early as Wednesday, was working on a house near Breckenridge, Colo., when he accidentally fired the nail into his head. He said it felt like he had been hit with a steel baseball bat.
Lawler said he doesn't know how he'll pay medical bills estimated to reach $100,000. He's uninsured.
"I was self-employed on the job," he said.
"I would have had to carry my own health insurance. But I didn't think I'd shoot myself with a nail, you know?"
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