Comments | little_details: getting shot in the knee

umbralillium in little_details

getting shot in the knee

Oct 26, 2008 16:14

Setting: current times. Shooting takes place in Europe; primary treatment (ie: original surgery) also done in Europe then the character goes home to America

Research done: Googled 'gunshot wound knee', 'kneecapping', 'shattered kneecap removal', and 'shattered kneecap removal recovery'; looked through tags on here

Summary: Jacob (mid-30s, healthy ( Read more... )

~weapons: firearms, ~medicine: injuries: gunshot wounds, europe (misc), ~travel: air travel

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umbralillium October 27 2008, 02:35:36 UTC

*snicker* Sorry, should've mentioned that detail. I'm thinking .357. a low-caliber handgun.

yanagi_wa October 27 2008, 02:31:19 UTC

It really depends on what they shoot him with. If they shoot him with anything larger that a .38, he might lose the leg. If they shoot him with a .357 he'll have it off right there.

umbralillium October 27 2008, 02:41:53 UTC

Hmm. Well, I want him to keep the leg, so maybe a .22?

yanagi_wa October 27 2008, 02:56:37 UTC

That'd shatter his knee cap, but they could fix it. It'd hurt like a b**** too.

greydoncreed October 27 2008, 03:45:21 UTC

If it's a terrorist organization, they would have military caliber pistols (9mm Parabellum/NATO, 9mm Russian and so on). However, if the terrs were torturing the guy, the procedure is to press the muzzle of the pistol into the knee and fire (the IRA would put the pistol to the back of the knee and fire forward). With a military round, the bullet and the blast effect would completely destroy the knee (bones, blood vessels ligaments, tendons, and nerves), to the point where the guy loses his leg, the doctors would fuse the bones together and leave the guy with a non-flexing very painful knee or do a complete artificial knee replacement ( ... )

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lilacsigil October 27 2008, 03:43:27 UTC

He can fly as soon as the doctors are sure there's not a high risk of deep vein thrombosis in that leg (as there may be with immobilisation), so anywhere from a few days to 6 weeks after surgery depending on how severe the break is, and if he's in traction. The wound could end up being anything from a broken but completely healed knee cap to severe ligament damage which doesn't let him put his full weight on that leg ever again - it's highly variable.

umbralillium October 27 2008, 03:57:20 UTC

Thanks for the info!

Shotgun to the knee victim here anonymous March 3 2017, 00:06:16 UTC

Hello, if you still need info I unfortunately am living it having been robbed and shot in the knee by three guys with shotguns. Having never been shot before I'd still guess that its the worst place to be shot, and a shotgun is the worst to get shot with, also because you want to get up after it happens and that does more damage. The cracking noise of my leg getting shot was worse than the snapping noise my leg made when it bent the wrong way after I tried to get up. And I cant describe the pain, except it was the kind that makes you scream. The issues its caused to my bowels and bladder were/are insane, but now 8 months later are getting better. I had a bone fixator drilled into my upper and lower leg and wore it for 3 months. So no flying for me in that time, trying to go to the bathroom was painful enough. Almost able to bend my leg 90 degrees now, but doc says I have to get a knee replacement eventually... they want to delay because I'm not old and complications will happen using a fake knee that long. Was in a wheelchair for ( ... )

anonymous March 3 2017, 00:12:06 UTC

Almost forgot the painkillers they gave me made most of the experience seem like a dream, and using up to 120mg of Norcos a day for pain. Got addicted to the painkillers and suffered through that, cannabis helped a lot- and no one ever teĺls ya about the constipation of pain pills.