[justlurking]

one wouldn't intuitively think that a ragged piece of lead floating around in there would be particularly healthy

An addenda to my earlier anecdote: my friend was told that the body would encase the foreign body in scar tissue and it wouldn't move around.

[tomkat]

so did your friend say if the damned thing had mushroomed and/or fragged when it entered his butt ?

musta sucked to not be able to sit down for, what, six weeks ?
yikes ...

[tomkat]

yikes²
guess i coulda worded that a little better, huh ?