Ouch !!
Actually, it didn’t hurt; my fiancee and I were feeling no pain from all the champagne we’d had at the premiere of “People” Magazine opening in W. Palm Bch, FL.
It didn’t even bleed. Just left a half-grapefruit-sized red mound w/ black dot in center. Wound sealed itself. The .32cal bullet missed all organs, bones, nerves, arteries etc. Everything. Just amazingly stopped short of the spine.
Trauma ctr doc in S. Miami Hospital said I was luckiest SOB he’d ever seen in 20yrs. “God was sitting on your shoulder tonite”, I remember him saying. “He’s saving you for something.” Removing bullet would have caused more trauma than being shot, so we opted to leave it in. Hasn’t caused any problems in 63yrs...