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AndyC wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:18 pm People asked and he said he wouldn't need surgery - dude got VERY lucky.

Just two band-aids and some antibiotics will suffice, I guess. When I was in the hospital suffering a gunshot wound myself,long ago, my family doctor told me about a soldier with a GSW he treated during WWII. The soldier had committed some serious crimes and had escaped. He was shot by an MP with a .45 in buttocks, as Forrest would say. It went through and through and hit nothing vital. He said he applied two band-aids, front and back and they took him back to the stockade.

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:14 pm

AndyC wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:18 pm People asked and he said he wouldn't need surgery - dude got VERY lucky.

Just two band-aids and some antibiotics will suffice, I guess. When I was in the hospital suffering a gunshot wound myself,long ago, my family doctor told me about a soldier with a GSW he treated during WWII. The soldier had committed some serious crimes and had escaped. He was shot by an MP with a .45 in buttocks, as Forrest would say. It went through and through and hit nothing vital. He said he applied two band-aids, front and back and they took him back to the stockade.

Her husband came home early? Seriously though. Do tell the short version. Who shot you? Where at? Glad you survived. That is one experience I don't care to ever have.

03Lightningrocks wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:41 pm

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:14 pm

AndyC wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:18 pm People asked and he said he wouldn't need surgery - dude got VERY lucky.

Just two band-aids and some antibiotics will suffice, I guess. When I was in the hospital suffering a gunshot wound myself,long ago, my family doctor told me about a soldier with a GSW he treated during WWII. The soldier had committed some serious crimes and had escaped. He was shot by an MP with a .45 in buttocks, as Forrest would say. It went through and through and hit nothing vital. He said he applied two band-aids, front and back and they took him back to the stockade.

Her husband came home early? Seriously though. Do tell the short version. Who shot you? Where at? Glad you survived. That is one experience I don't care to ever have.

I think I told the story here, but I can't remember for sure. Short version: 1966, Johnson City Texas, on property close to LBJ ranch while he was there. Ruger Super Single-six W/.22 LR HP in all 6 chambers (a no-no for the old style SA, but I was young and invincible). Holster on jeans belt, I undid my belt for the call of nature and it slipped off, hammer hit rock, bullet hit belly and bounced around my abdomen. I was a real curiosity there in the hospital for 9 days.

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:23 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:41 pm

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:14 pm

AndyC wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:18 pm People asked and he said he wouldn't need surgery - dude got VERY lucky.

Just two band-aids and some antibiotics will suffice, I guess. When I was in the hospital suffering a gunshot wound myself,long ago, my family doctor told me about a soldier with a GSW he treated during WWII. The soldier had committed some serious crimes and had escaped. He was shot by an MP with a .45 in buttocks, as Forrest would say. It went through and through and hit nothing vital. He said he applied two band-aids, front and back and they took him back to the stockade.

Her husband came home early? Seriously though. Do tell the short version. Who shot you? Where at? Glad you survived. That is one experience I don't care to ever have.

I think I told the story here, but I can't remember for sure. Short version: 1966, Johnson City Texas, on property close to LBJ ranch while he was there. Ruger Super Single-six W/.22 LR HP in all 6 chambers (a no-no for the old style SA, but I was young and invincible). Holster on jeans belt, I undid my belt for the call of nature and it slipped off, hammer hit rock, bullet hit belly and bounced around my abdomen. I was a real curiosity there in the hospital for 9 days.

You got lucky it did not cause permanent damage. Wow!

03Lightningrocks wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 7:19 pm

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 6:23 pm

03Lightningrocks wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 4:41 pm

puma guy wrote: Tue Aug 11, 2020 1:14 pm

AndyC wrote: Mon Aug 10, 2020 9:18 pm People asked and he said he wouldn't need surgery - dude got VERY lucky.

Just two band-aids and some antibiotics will suffice, I guess. When I was in the hospital suffering a gunshot wound myself,long ago, my family doctor told me about a soldier with a GSW he treated during WWII. The soldier had committed some serious crimes and had escaped. He was shot by an MP with a .45 in buttocks, as Forrest would say. It went through and through and hit nothing vital. He said he applied two band-aids, front and back and they took him back to the stockade.

Her husband came home early? Seriously though. Do tell the short version. Who shot you? Where at? Glad you survived. That is one experience I don't care to ever have.

I think I told the story here, but I can't remember for sure. Short version: 1966, Johnson City Texas, on property close to LBJ ranch while he was there. Ruger Super Single-six W/.22 LR HP in all 6 chambers (a no-no for the old style SA, but I was young and invincible). Holster on jeans belt, I undid my belt for the call of nature and it slipped off, hammer hit rock, bullet hit belly and bounced around my abdomen. I was a real curiosity there in the hospital for 9 days.

You got lucky it did not cause permanent damage. Wow!

Yes, I was. The small hospital in Johnson City had trauma treatment capability because the doctor's wife died as the result of a car accident and died at the hospital where she was transported; due to her injuries and their limited ability to treat her. The nurses told me he vowed he would equip his hospital with the latest and best equipment. I got an obstruction from adhesions about a week and a half after I returned home and spent week in the hospital; that's where my family doctor told me his story. BTW both the Johnson City Hospital and the one I was admitted to in Pasadena and both doctors are long gone. They were both tremendous physicians and surgeons.

A while back my younger brother who lives in our parents house found a letter the JC doc wrote to our insurance company that was refusing to cover my medical treatment and surgery.