Posted on 05/14/2007 8:16:59 PM PDT by kellynla
A grandmother who went to the hospital with a headache was found to have a bullet in her head, believed to have been lodged there for the past 64 years.
Jin Guangying, 77, of China went to Shuyang Leniency Hospital for an x-ray to get to the bottom of her pain.
"We were surprised to learn there was a bullet inside her head," her son, Wang Zhengbang, told the Yangtse Evening Post.
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According to the paper, Jin remembers being shot in 1943 during World War II by the invading Japanese army when she was taking supplies to her father.
"I was 13, living along the railways in Xuzhou city. One afternoon in September, my mother asked me to take a meal to my father and his colleagues who were fighting the Japanese," she told the Post. "I was spotted by the Japanese army. They ran after me and opened fire. A bullet passed through the corner of my right ear. I hit the ground and lost consciousness."
Jin was back home in bed by the time she regained consciousness, as her mother applied herbal medicines to the wound. She later learned the bullet had passed through the arm of another person before striking her head.
Now in 2007, the chief surgeon who removed the rusty ammunition was amazed the bullet did not cause any major problem after so many years.
"The fact that the bullet lost strength and speed passing through another person, and that the point it struck is not vital, may explain her survival," he said.
I remember reading of a similar case in the 70’s, WWII veteran, bullet had lodged in his sinus, he sneezed it out about 30 years later.
Wow, they have documented the typical ABC’s The View fan....
I’m speachless
=speechless (better check the brain for a bullet)
If it's going to rust at all, I'd think your body would corrode it after so many years. I'm not completely disbelieving, only a tad skeptical.
Long and slender, likely 6.5 X 50. The 7.7 round is stumpier.
That is Amazing!
“(Ya can’t make this stuff up...) ‘
Where there’s a will, WingNutDaily will find a way.
I found a wing-nut in my pizza once.
Also a big-ole-tooth, with a wopper of a cavity, in a can of peanuts...
interesting ping
I would say this is total BS if not a tad sceptical.
I want to the source and read down.At the bottom of the page is a link to a story about a boy inhaleing a christmas
tree which goes to prove that this tabloid is very dubious.
I think the skeptic alert is on here. That round passed through one person and into her and it keeps it’s pristine shape? (according to the picture) No deformity in the round? Don’t know about that one...
If you had read the “Christmas tree” story, you’d have known that the 2-yr old did not “inhale” the whole tree, just a small piece of branch about an inch long. You may be aware how small children love to stick things up their noses.
There are lots of people walking around with foriegn objects in them, including bullets, nails, screws, shrapnel, etc.
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