London, April : A farmer in China has finally get rid of a bullet which got struck in his brain some 23 years ago after a long surgery, a media report said.
Wang Tianqing, who lives in northern China’s Hebei province, fell unconscious when he suffered a blow to the head in 1988, The Telegraph reported Saturday.
“I thought I’d been hit by a slingshot…I saw a man standing on a hill and thought he’d hit me,” Wang was qouted as saying.
He came to his senses in the hospital, he was was given anti-inflammatory drugs and sent home.
Soon thereafter, he began suffering epileptic seizures that grew worse in the past two decades.
When he visited the hospital for treatment of his convulsions, the rusted two-centimetre-long bullet was seen on his CAT scan.
Wang Zhiming, an attending surgeon from Neurosurgical Oncology department, said that the survival rate for being shot in the head would usually be one out of several thousand, but the bullet missed his brain’s main veins and not injured his brainstem.
–Source: facenfacts.com