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How to treat a gunshot wound in the wild?

How to treat a gunshot wound (bullet extracted)?

  • Last night me and my girlfriend got too drunk, we got into an argument and she shot me in the shoulder. We removed the bullet cleaned the wound and placed a bandage over it. This morning I was changing the bandage and saw that the wound is turning a greyish green color. What do I do to heal to heal the wound without going to the hospital. I cant go the hospital because the police investigate gunshot wounds and I don't want my girlfriend to go to jail because she was drunk when she shot me and didn't really mean it.

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    Let's look at this in the future. Green is bad, so you do have an infection. If you let the infection continue, it will get into muscle, bone, blood. You will lose your arm, if you ignore the fact that the arm needs to be removed it will go into your blood and through your entire body, FAST. You will die. So let's say you decide to save your life, and get rid of the arm, how are you going to do this? Will you go to the hospital at that point? Or have your loving girlfriend cut it off for you? If you go to the hospital you will have to tell them what happened. Even if you get some antibiotics, it is probably to late, you are gonna need strong IV antibiotics Let's say you decide heck with it, I am keeping my arm, and I will die before I send my sweety to jail. So you die, cause you will when the infection spreads. You are young, so a young person dying from sepsis (blood infection) there WILL be an autopsy, and they will find out you had been shot. So when they figure out she shot you, she will go to prison for murder. Right now if you guys just go to the hospital and tell the police what happened and that you don't wanna press charges, she may just get a domestic violence and some sort of unsafe gun discharge. I guess you could lie and say you were drinking and having target practice. You went to change the target and she didn't realize the safety was off and the gun fired hitting you in the shoulder.

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You need to go to the hospital, it sounds infected, if you don't do anything about it you will devolp a serious infection and die. Lie about who shot you, say you went out last night and someone drove by and shot you, you can't recall because you were drunk. The reason you didn't call the cops, you can say is because everyone was really drunk and the power was off. It didn't look bad enough to go to the hospital then so you waited to the next morning when everyone was sober. If you want to still treat it yourself try cauterizing it with something hot. Hide all the guns next time you want to get wasted.

Space Fish

It sounds like it is getting infected you really do need to get it checked out, especially as you removed the bullet yourself and there is no telling what other damage has been caused first by getting shot and subsequently removing the bullet. You will need antibiotics to fight the infection and the would will need to be properly cleaned with an antibacterial wash and dressed and the solutions you need in order to do that effectively will only really be available at the hospital.

Louise G

I dont think they would investigate it if you go to the ER, They would just treat it and let you go or keep you depending on how bad it is (as far as i know, i could be wrong.......) ANd how are you not in pain?

princess sydney

you need to go to the hospital no matter what...the wound is getting infected and you need a profesional to look at it

Megan Nemo Glover

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