Reply #19: they knew he had bird shot in him [View All]

[goodhue]

but they don't know how much apparently

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/02/14/AR2006021400990.html

He said later, however, that the single BB-like piece of birdshot is "in a fixed position" and it not expected to travel. Blanchard said he and other doctors treating Whittington feel "very strongly that all the other birdshot in him is not problematic." The number of other pieces of birdshot in Whittington's body is not known, he said, but could range anywhere from "more than five" to "less than 150 to 200."