58-year-old Mary Volz collapsed and was taken to the hospital before she realized she had a bullet lodged in her skull, and is still unsure of how it got there.
A Michigan woman unknowingly had a bullet in her head for almost a week and says she has “no recollection” of how it got there, according to the New York Post.
Mary Volz, 58, went to the hospital with a mysterious head wound, but was only diagnosed with COVID-19 due to chest pain and trouble breathing, she shared with the outlet.
Volz, a former addiction counselor, told the outlet that she was diagnosed with the virus at a Saginaw hospital on June 29, which was two days after she first went to Covenant Healthcare due to ailments.
Despite the additional wound on her head, Volz told the Post that hospital employees were unable to identify its source.
“I have no recollection of how I got shot, if it was a drive-by or if it came from people getting off the bus,” Volz said to the outlet.
According to the outlet, Volz said later she fell and couldn’t move, and that led the doctors to determine that either a bullet or bullet fragment about 8 millimeters big was the source of her wound.
Volz shared that doesn’t believe she was targeted since she doesn’t have any known enemies. “I didn’t realize how I got that and I guess that’s where the bullet came in,” Volz said.
“I don’t remember being shot or anyone even around me.”
“The only thing we know for sure is that sometime between the evening of June 27 and the evening of June 29 is when it happened,” Volz’s oldest brother, Matt Volz, told the outlet.
“She walked around with a bullet in her head for almost a week.”
Volz told the New York Post that she had an infection caused by the bullet and she had emergency surgery to try to remove it due to the increased pressure in her brain, but ultimately it was decided to be too dangerous.
“They tried to get the shrapnel out, but they won’t take the bullet out,” Volz said to the outlet.
“It’s too dangerous.”
Police went to Volz’s home to search for any bullet holes but have yet to find any clues regarding the situation, according to the outlet.
“I have headaches every day and I have to wear a helmet, so that doesn’t help with the pain,” Volz said.
“It’s pretty excruciating.”
Volz's great niece Brianna Robinson has created a GoFundMe to aid in the former counselor's medical costs that has currently raised nearly $2,000 of its $15,000 goal.
"The surgery went as well as it could considering the circumstances; however, in a few months she will undergo another surgery to reattach the portion of her skull that was removed," Robinson wrote on the fundraiser page.
"She faces a long road of rehabilitation and therapies, in the hopes that she will be fully functional to work again."
According to the Post, Sgt. Steven Moore of Michigan State Police says the authorities are still looking into the incident.
