Sunday, February 27, 2011

Wow, headache's gone - after surgeons remove bullet from brain

A Chinese grandmother has woken up in hospital after doctors finally took care of her persistent headaches by removing a bullet from her brain.

Jin Guangying, 77, of Shuyang town, Jiangsu province, went to Shuyang Leniency Hospital for an X-ray, inset, only to be told the cause of her pain was an injury inflicted when she was 13.

She was shot in 1943 during the Second World War by the invading Japanese when she was taking supplies to her guerrilla father.

The bullet, pictured and visible on the X-ray, hit her after first going through a bystanders arm.

After herbal treatment from her mother, the war wound was forgotten - until surgeons plucked the rusty bullet from her skull.

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