Talk about a wild medical twist! A woman from India has stunned everyone after discovering a bullet inside her leg—a shocking souvenir from her childhood, hidden away for two whole decades. Kavita Baisla, 32, who lives in Dabua Colony, Faridabad just outside New Delhi, got the fright of her life while tending to a stubborn infection on her right thigh on January 4th.
According to reports from Times Now, Hindustan Times, and ETV Bharat, Kavita’s ordeal began with a persistent boil that just refused to heal. Despite popping pills and trying ointments, nothing worked. Two months later, the boil burst open—spitting out a bullet, much to her disbelief.
“I couldn’t believe my eyes,” Kavita recalled, still shocked that she extracted the slug all by herself, and without a single surgical stitch. Her husband, Pradeep Baisla, was equally gobsmacked. “No surgery. She’s totally fine now!” he told ETV Bharat, breathing a sigh of relief.
The bizarre discovery triggered a flood of memories: back in 2005, 12-year-old Kavita attended a government school in Kota Khandewala village near an armed forces firing range. Suddenly, during an exam, she felt a searing pain in her thigh. Bleeding from the wound, her teachers figured she’d been hit by a flying stone, thanks to rowdy classmates nearby. Turns out, it was something far more dangerous—a stray bullet from the military range.
“My family wrapped my injury with a bandage and it healed up,” Kavita said. But all these years later, infection brought the truth back to light: she’d been living with a bullet buried in her tissue. After the slug popped out, her pain quickly disappeared, and doctors believe the bullet might be from a self-loading rifle.
Dr Upendra Bhardwaj of Badshah Khan civil hospital explained that, thankfully, the round lost its punch by the time it reached Kavita—lodging harmlessly in muscle and missing vital nerves and arteries. Medical miracle or just incredible luck? Either way, Kavita’s story is one for the books!
