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

Last updated at 15:15 18 May 2007


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.

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chinese grandmother with bullet in brain jin guanying

chinese grandmother with bullet in brain jin guanying

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 bystander’s

arm.

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chinese grandmother with bullet in brain jin guanying

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

the rusty bullet from her skull.

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