We still don’t know if it’s lead or steel, but I can’t ever have an MRI, as it would either super-heat or be ripped right out of me. Looks a little ‘bent’, so I’m thinking it’s lead.
Docs didn’t want to operate back in ‘74, since they didn’t have arthroscopic surgery back then, and it would have been a 5-6” incision. More invasive than the actual bullet itself.
It did miss ‘everything’, and didn’t even bleed; just a huge red grapefruit-sized lump w/ black dot in the center. Didn’t even hurt until about 30-40mins later. Trauma Ctr doc said, “God was truly sitting on your shoulder, tonite”. I was VERY lucky. Once.
Lucky indeed. You body has walled it off, and I guess has just rerouted everything.