Brazilian medical student parties for 4 days with bullet in his head, he thought it was….

Tribune Web Desk

Chandigarh, January 23

A 21-year-old medical student in Brazil thought he was hit by a rock, but he actually had a bullet stuck in his head.

Mateus Facio partied for days in Cabo Frio, near Rio De Janeiro, with the bullet in his head thinking it was a minor injury.

“Little did I know that all this would happen,” Facio told the local media of the freak accident on New Year’s Eve.

He had been hanging out with his friends on the beach, when he suddenly felt something strike him in the head, as per nypost.com.

Facio mistook it for a rock as he “didn’t hear” a gunshot.

“I thought it was a stone, a bad joke, that someone picked up and threw a rock,” the Brazilian, who studies medicine in school, told Globo 1.

“If there was a noise, I could imagine what it could be. But I didn’t hear anything, it was completely normal.”

It wasn’t until four days later that Mateus realised something was wrong. He drove 200 miles from Rio to his hometown of Juiz de Fora when he started suffering from arm spasms.

“I went to take a nap and woke up with my arm feeling a little silly. I felt my fingers moving, but I didn’t have the confidence to pick something up.”

It was only when he went to a hospital that the doctors told him that he had a 9mm bullet in his head.

“The bullet was compressing the brain in an area close to the region responsible for the movement of the right arm, causing irritation,” explained presiding neurosurgeon Flávio Falcometa while describing the scholar’s symptoms.

“This led to the brain to respond with movements that manifested as convulsive episodes.

Falcometa said the patient was extremely lucky that he didn’t sustain “more serious damage” such as paralysis of his arm or even his whole body. A surgery was performed on Mateus and the bullet was removed successfully.

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