**Three MONTHS in the hospital? I caught a .30 cal in the right hand anf forearm, was evac'd to Japan, operated on, recovered, and was back IN MY UNIT within seven weeks! **
She had 3 major spine surgeries..along with surgery for other wounds. So yes, 3 months in a hospital.
You caught a bullet, treated and released back into battle. If you had the injuries Pvt Lynch has you wouldn't have been able to do so.
With some near 40 years of clinical medical work, I have yet to see a patient with fractures (spine included) spend in excess of three months hospitalized. I had fractures of a total of eight bones from a GSW...and I'm right handed...but 7 weeks later, the docs felt I was well enough to go back to a grunt line outfit...