Silverfox
Sergeant
- Joined
- Oct 8, 2012
- Location
- Georgia Coast
Reading this now---Unreal---If true, the man operated on his own bowels to get a bullet out and repair the damage---is this possible?
Do you mean Colonel Thomas F. Berry operated on himself? Who operated on himself? If the intestines were pierced in anyway so fecal matter, no matter how minute, infiltrated the abdomen, I don't see how they wouldn't get peritonitis and die. If in some amazingly lucky way a "something" (bullet, shrapnel) entered the abdomen but didn't pierce anything, I suppose anything is possible but is it probable, not likely but there is always that one in a million chance I guess.
If I remember the tale correctly - didn't both he and the young lady pass out as soon as he was done? I thought she landed across his legs, and he fell back in a faint and that is how they were found. I can't imagine how he saw where he had to sew you. You would think he'd be so weak at this point. I guess one does what one needs to do to live, but is this story true???
Maybe she held a mirror?