Opinion: Living with bullet fragments in the body can have long-term medical consequences

Oronde Mc Clain was only 10 when he was shot in the head while caught in the gunfire of a drive-by shooting. He had to learn how to walk and talk again after an eight-week coma and the removal of one-third of his brain.&#x A0; Twenty-five years later, Mc Clain still lives with the health consequences of this incident. He has seizures, and his right side is partially paralyzed. He also lives with the physical remnants of what happened that day — specifically 36 retained bullet fragments that are lodged inside his brain and skull. Read the rest…