32-year-old pulls bullet from thigh after cleaning infected wound

A woman in Faridabad, India, discovered a bullet lodged in her thigh while cleaning an infected wound, People reports. Kavita, 32, of Dabua Colony pulled the projectile from the back of her right thigh; local outlets say it had been in her leg for 20 years.

According to Times Now, the Hindustan Times and ETV Bharat, Kavita had been suffering pain and an infection at the site for two months after a boil developed. After medication failed, the boil burst on its own and the bullet came out; her husband, Pradeep Baisla, told the outlet the bullet emerged without surgery and that his wife is now healthy. Kavita told the Hindustan Times she remembered being wounded at the same spot in 2005 at age 12 when her school was near an armed forces firing range and teachers assumed she had been hit by a stone.

Faridabad’s Badshah Khan civil hospital Dr. Upendra Bhardwaj told the Hindustan Times the bullet likely lost speed and lodged in muscle without damaging an artery or nerve, and that tissue formed around it before later rupturing and causing infection. A doctor who examined her said the bullet appeared to be from a self-loading rifle, and Kavita, who is expected to make a full recovery, told Times Now News she never imagined the childhood injury was actually a bullet.

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