Doctors have lastly discovered why Wang Tianqing has been suffering from epilepsy for more than two decades.
A two-centimetre rusted bullet, entrenched in the head of a farmer for 23 years, has been detached at a local hospital.
In 1988 Wang Tianqing, who lives in Zhangjiakouin city in northern China's Hebei province, was knocked comatose on his way home by a blow to the head.
"I thought I'd been hit by a slingshot," said Wang. "I saw a man rank on a hill and thought he'd hit me."
He woke up in a hospital bed, was given anti-inflammatory drugs by the doctors and sent home.
Shortly afterwards he started having epileptic seizure which grew progressively poorer over the next two decades.
On a return trip to the hospital for treatment for his seizures, the bullet was spotted on his CAT scan.
Wang Zhiming, an attending surgeon from Neurosurgical Oncology department, said that the continued existence rate for being shot in the head would usually be one out of several thousand, but the bullet missed his brain's main veins and not injured his brainstem.
