At one point, I could like wiggle around the piece of metal that was above my lip.
I remember looking at myself and I was like, ‘Who is that?’ My body took all of the shrapnel from, like, the students - the two students who were shot and killed next me. I had, like, blood down my face and I had blood in my hair and I couldn’t see out of one of my eyes. I remember that day asking for my friend’s phone so that I could look at myself in the face. If they could take them out, probably they would be more easy to erase from my memory.” “It just felt like I was this, like, warm ball of numbness. I remember feeling the left femur one because it touched my femur and exploded. I was, like, holding Martin, so the bullets I received in the left side. So I had to reimagine that bullet as lucky and a little bit of a spark of life inside me, encouraging me.” “My leg started vibrating and raised from the floor. I could have said, ‘This is his rage inside my body.’ But I couldn’t let it be there. It still causes quite a bit of pain, especially if it moves. The bullet hit my rib and it tracked around until my spine. I actually didn’t realize something was wrong until I had already picked my 17-year-old daughter up, thrown her against the wall and covered her with my body. In fact, it’s this whole other different problem.” “It felt more like a bee sting than anything else. Like, was totally moved on and, like, doing well. I mean, it was like, you know - I made all this progress. Just last year - 10 years later - I found out that some of the bullet fragments on this side had found their way into my hip joint and were causing the lead levels in my blood to elevate to dangerous levels.
I mean, I’m not going to make it into a necklace or anything, but I feel like I carried it around in my body for years, that I should be able to have it. The doctors show you for a quick second and then all that gets given to the police. One of those is like clearly the shell casing. I was super curious to see the pictures of what they took out of me when they had surgery to remove some of the fragments. It can often do more damage trying to fish out all those pieces than just leaving it there.” “Here is this foreign object in my body that shouldn’t be there.” “Gunman is on the loose -” “Armed with a Sig Sauer MCX rifle -” “With an AR-15 -” “And our hearts pour out to the people in Florida -” “Bullets started coming through our classroom door and then seconds later, my whole body shook. I was an evidence locker.” “Still have three bullets inside of me that doctors did not remove. “The piece of metal that remains in my body was meant to kill me. Transcript The Bullet Inside My Body What’s it like to have a bullet lodged inside of you? We asked survivors of mass shootings, from Parkland to Pulse, to tell us how it feels to live with a constant reminder of the tragedy.
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