Parting Shot — 4/1/09

The CAT scan of Emerson de Oliveira Abreu, a man who came to the hospital with a spear stuck in his head after a diving accident, is shown on a monitor at the Adao Pereira Nunes state hospital in Duque de Caxias, Brazil, Wednesday. After doctors surgically removed the 6-inch (15-centimeter) spear from his brain, Abreu is in stable condition. Story here . (AP Photo/Ricardo Moraes) SR’s Today In Photos .

DFO: For those keeping score at home, my family name was once “de Oliveira,” like the guy with the spear in the head. And one of my grandmother’s sisters settled in Brazil. Who knows. I could be related. Then, in Portuguese areas, my surname is fairly common.