complications

• "you know what happens when a shooting victim comes in with a bullet inside them?
  someone like antoine? unless the bullet is lodged in a vital organ, we leave it where it is...
  it's hard cause a bullet wound, when you look at it, it's awful.
  the bullet tears through everything tissue, bone.
  shockwaves from the impact destroy even more and it hurts to see that bullet inside someone's body and just leave it there. it feels so wrong. it goes against every instinct you have as a doctor.
  but as wrong as it feels, it's the best thing you can do.
  in time, the immune system kicks in, fighting off infection, preventing further damage.
  inflammation dies down and the damage that you thought could never be repaired, somehow, gradually, begins to get better. of course, there may be setbacks but the wound does heal. tissue grows back. bones knit together.
  where old connections can't be repaired, new ones are made.
  finally, as the months pass, the bullet becomes encased in scar tissue...sealed off.
  i'm not saying life ever goes back to normal but it does go on."