Reply #3: I have no idea where it is or if it's pressing on a large vessel

[Warpy]

but it sounds like he didn't have any symptoms of a heart attack, just a spill of telltale enzymes that told the docs that some coronary tissue had its blood supply cut off and had died. The area may be very small (and likely is) and it would be more traumatic to go in and try to extract the pellet than to leave it where it is and allow scar tissue to build in around it so it won't continue to roll around in there. Its always a major risk to bring a scalpel anywhere near the heart, and a doubly major risk in any one 78 years old.

I'm sure they're watching him closely and if he does show signs of deteriorating, they may end up rushing him into surgery. For now, it sounds fairly stable, although with this bunch of liars and PR happy talkers one never knows.

What seems pretty clear is that those pellets went in pretty deeply, and that the official story of how far away he was from that trigger happy old fart Cheney is pure baloney. It sounds like he was a lot closer.