14 DAY TRIAL // Have you ever experienced a persistent headache? Yours was nothing compared to that of a 77-year-old Chinese grandmother, which shocked the doctors when they found why: a bullet located in her brain!
Jin Guangying, a 77-year-old Chinese woman, living in Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, received the bullet when she was shot by Japanese army troops in 1943, during the Second World War, and now, 64 years later, she has finally had the bullet removed from her head. "Chinese doctors have removed a more than 1-inch (2.4 cm)-long bullet from a woman's skull 64 years after she was shot," the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
"Jin Guangying was in good condition following the four-hour surgery," said Zhou Hong, the head of surgery at Renci Hospital in Jin's native Jiangsu province. "I don't really know how to explain her survival with that bullet in her head for such a long time.I would have say this is pure good luck. 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", added Hong, who removed the rusty bullet.
"Guangying was shot in 1943 while delivering food to her father, a member of a guerrilla unit fighting Japanese that had invaded the region in 1937", the Shanghai Daily newspaper reported.
The 13-year-old girl survived due to the intense care of her mother, which applied her a herbal treatment, but the bullet went undetected and the war wound was forgotten. She experienced through all her life periodic headaches and fits, till the X-ray technology revealed the cause. "Fearing she might have a tumor, her family arranged for a scan that revealed the presence of the now-rusty and patina green bullet," added the newspaper.
"The operation went smoothly and actually was not that hard, even though she is 77 years old," Zhou said.