{"id":1306,"date":"2012-01-03T09:49:45","date_gmt":"2012-01-03T09:49:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/p=?1306"},"modified":"2012-01-03T09:49:45","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T09:49:45","slug":"man-lives-with-bullet-in-his-head-for-82-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forcespenpals.net\/gb\/news\/man-lives-with-bullet-in-his-head-for-82-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Man lives with bullet in his head for 82 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually when you hear about somebody getting shot in the head, their long-term prospects are not great.<\/p>\n<p>However, a man in Russia has gone about his life with no ill-effects despite having a bullet lodged in his brain for the past 82 years.<\/p>\n<p>His brother accidentally shot him when he was three years old and doctors decided that surgery would be too risky.<\/p>\n<p>Miraculously, the male has not suffered any health problems as a result of the accident and the case has been reported by the New England Journal of Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>Dr David Ross &ndash; emergency physician at Penrose Hospital in Colorado Springs, Colorado &ndash; said the speed bullets travel at worked to his advantage, as it generated so much heat that it was sterile and so the chance of infection was reduced.<\/p>\n<p>It certainly gives him a story to tell the grandchildren and I just hope he didn't fall out with the brother who shot him.<\/p>\n<p>Posted by Mark Wilkins<img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"ADNFCR-2867-ID-801253039-ADNFCR\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.directnews.co.uk\/feedtrack\/justcopyright.gif?feedid=2867&amp;itemid=801253039\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Russian man was shot when he was three years old but has lived for another 82. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.5 - 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