The young man recovered in a field hospital only 12 days after the injury. A surgeon surprised Stepan only three months later: the doctor told him that he had been wounded directly in the heart. The bullet went into the man's throat, plunged into the body between the collar-bones, severed lungs and stuck in the pericardial pleura.
When the wounded soldier wondered if doctors were going to take the bullet out of his heart, the surgeon answered that he would have to continue his life with it. "If we take it out, you will die instantly. Now you will need to eat a lot, in order to accumulate fat around the bullet," the doctor said.
Thats pretty awesome. I don't imagine that there are too many people that have been shot in the heart and still have the bullet in there to prove it.
