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wouldn't there be excessive bleeding?
And no, it didn't just graze her face...
http://blog.al.com/live/2009/04/woma...ointblank.htmlWoman survives near point-blank shot in head, even makes cup of tea, deputies say
Posted by Cherie Ward, Staff Reporter April 16, 2009 5:44 AM
PASCAGOULA, Miss. -- A rural woman shocked deputies when they found her alert and coherent after being shot in the head at close range by her husband.
She even made a cup of tea, according to one of the deputies.
"There's no way she should be alive," Jackson County Sheriff Mike Byrd said. "The bullet completely passed straight through her brain. It entered at the middle of her forehead and exited from the back of her head. She should be dead. It's one of the most unreal, bizarre things I've ever seen."
Byrd said that Donald Ray Sexton shot his wife Tammy in the forehead at 12:10 a.m. Tuesday, then went to the back porch of their home on Billy Hinton Road in the Harleston community in north Jackson County and fatally shot himself.
Deputies believe that the couple had been arguing.
Tammy Sexton, 47, was airlifted to the University of South Alabama Medical Center in Mobile. A hospital representative said Wednesday afternoon that Sexton was listed in fair condition in the intensive care unit.
Lee Kesterson, a neurosurgeon with the Singing River Health System, said that a gunshot victim's alertness after a head wound signals their ability to survive it.
"If a person is in a comatose state, chances of survival are poor," he said.
Byrd said a young relative was in the home when the shootings occurred and ran to a neighbor for help.
"When deputies got there, they thought they were responding to a murder-suicide," Byrd said. "But, she was up walking around and talking."
Sheriff's Sgt. Leon Rushing said Tammy Sexton told detectives she had "just made some tea and was fine."
Rushing said she appeared slightly disoriented but was alert and responsive to questions.
"She had a cup of tea on her nightstand," Rushing said. "That was evidence that she had gone to the microwave and made tea. I'm sure she made it after she was shot."
Police recovered a .380-caliber semi-automatic handgun, which they believe was the pistol that 57-year-old Donald Sexton used in the shootings, Byrd said.
Rushing said hospital officials told him Wednesday that doctors were predicting that Tammy Sexton would make a full recovery.
"I've seen many, many head wounds over the years, and people just don't survive getting shot in the head," Byrd said. "She's an absolute miracle."
Real or fake?
wouldn't there be excessive bleeding?
It's happened before. Major survival factors include if the bullet destroyed large arteries, if it was hollow-point, the size of the bullet, if it destroys the brain stem, and if one or both sides of the brain are damaged.
Its not that unimaginable to survive a round from a small gun with a penetrating bullet as opposed to a hollow point that expands and destroys brain matter in large swaths. I mean, people used to ram ice picks into their brain and live.
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/hea...9.story?page=1
it's real, the exact same thing happened in Kill Bill
She probably got shot through one of the empty sections.
Oh, a gun.
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