That sounds like a pretty unique accident.
My brother, once upon a time, had fallen from a fence onto a wrought iron fence in a school yard and had his leg impaled. Clear through the calf and out the other side...he was dangling for a bit, not realizing what happened until people started screaming.
How did yours happen?
Sh!t mine pales in comparison to that.
It was early August on a warm Friday afternoon, about 2 weeks before freshman year of high school was to start. It was in a time when bleaching one's hair was the sh!t. Of course, being a diy guy from early on, it was an at-home job. For those of you who were cool enough to bleach your hair, you know that the sign that it's time to start washing it out is when you feel like your scalp is being burnt off. Not just that slight warm-burning feeling that comes around the five-minute mark, but that oh-my-God-at-least-I'm-getting-high-while-putting-myself-through-this-idiotic-torture-that-I'm-pretty-sure-is-going-to-leave-me-with-no-hair mark. Yeah I was at that point, and so of course I had to run into the bathroom wherein my dad had recently placed a huge rug that came from my deceased grandma. I was lucky enough to be the one who found the sewing-machine needle that somehow snuck itself in there.
So then as I was writhing in pain from that, I had to try to quickly wash that sh!t out of my hair while my sister ran to the "nurse" who lived two houses down. Then my other sister found the other half of the needle still embedded in the rug. The "nurse" started feeling around, because at that point we assumed that it had just pierced through the skin and muscle and she wanted to check if it chipped any bones. There seemed to be something that seemed like chipped bone in there, so of course I went to urgent care.
They did some X-rays and showed me how it wasn't, in fact, chipped bone we could feel, but the other half of the unwelcomed house guest. You could even clearly make out the eye of the needle. So then they scheduled me for outpatient surgery on Monday.
Monday rolls around, and somehow both my sister, who was to drive me, and I overslept. Cool. Now the soonest they could get me in wasn't for another week.
It was the first time I had surgery of any kind, so after they had shot me up with the local anesthesia, they came back to check if it had taken effect. Instead of asking if I felt any pain when they pricked me with a distant cousin of my new "friend" inside my foot, the nurse (this time an actual one) asked if I could feel it. I didn't know that you were still supposed to feel the pressure of the needle, so I quickly responded, "Yes." So nurse shoots me up with a second round, comes back to check after a bit again, this time I'm able to confidently say that I feel absolutely nothing.
Get wheeled into the surgery room, doctors come in, they're all moving around and messing with it and what not, and I was supposed to be able to watch it from a mirror. But since I didn't feel anything I had no clue they had even started cutting me open and fishing around in there. About 10 minutes in I asked if they were gonna tell me when they started and they all had a great laugh and said that they had almost found it already. But I decided to make them work for it by accidentally falling on it a couple of times throughout that week, which just pushed it further in.
So the only really cool part about the story is that I got an X-ray of my foot with a sewing-machine needle in it, and my hair.