Ah, the same way I deal with issues in my life. Good to know that the tendency goes all the way to the bone.

Iirc lead poisoning isn't much of an issue because your body encapsulates it, preventing the body from absorbing it.

Metal detectors are a non issue. My dad has several pieces of metal in his spine from surgeries. He occasionally sets off metal detectors, but it's never been a huge issue with security. It's more common than you think. People have metal plates, screws and general hardware put in surgically for a variety of reasons. It's fairly common.

Probably depends on the round as well. NATO rounds are fully jacketed so the copper would have to dissolve before the lead was exposed to the body. For a hollow point or otherwise damaged round, then I think yes lead would be exposed to the body. No clue about danger of that though

Fun fact: cremation doesn't completely burn up the human body. A certain amount of solid bone fragments remain, which are ground up. This almost entirely forms the "ashes".

Assuming the bullet was lead (which melts at about a third of cremation fire temperatures), it likely ended up as little blobs and was then ground up. Your mother still has the bullet, it's just in powder form now.

Some bits survive. E.g. an artificial hip.

I've been a stoner for years, you're not going to get me with those

Pretty much, that's the explanation given back then.

Iirc it was phrased more that the risks of complications from removing the less healthy ones and all the blood supply issues that go with that complicat e the surgery in both time and possible unwanted outcomes. So damn near exactly what you said :)

There's times it has to be done, but to the best of my knowledge, the majority of cases, the kidneys aren't doing anything bad, they're just not working right.

Oh no, we're not starting that shit again!

one large mean green kidney bean??

mmm Beans

If they filled the space with kidney beans, then they'd have even more kidneys!

I wonder how they found that out.

- Hey Nick, where did you put the old kidney I can't see it anywhere?

- Uh-oh... It's... I'm sure it's fine, listen I have to run to a meeting, just keep an eye on this patient.