"the elderly gentlemen has some buckshot lodged in his heart"
For pete's sake! It is not buckshot. It is small shot, #7 1/2, I believe. 2mm in size. Buckshot is another matter altogether. Had he been hit with any size of buckshot, he'd be in serious trouble.
"For pete's sake! It is not buckshot."
Sorry about that, I'm really not a gun type of guy so if I got the terminology wrong I apologize. I was just giving the link of news for others to see.