Disney Star Updates After Being Shot in the Face: ‘It’s a Miracle’
By Movieguide® Contributor
Earlier this month, Christy Carlson Romano was accidentally shot while at a shooting range, and “it’s a miracle” she still has her vision.
“The birdshot, which is lead, entered right underneath the eye and, very lucky, God willing, it just went below the eye,” said her doctor in a video that Romano posted this week. “And so now it’s stuck in the bone, further back. She does have a little bit…subconjunctival hemorrhage which is, very fortunate, just a little blood around the eye, but it’s nothing inside the eye. So we just reviewed all the anatomy with the pictures, and we missed the eyeball, missed the nerve, missed the muscles—”
“By one millimeter?” Romano asked.
“One millimeter, yeah,” Dr. Paul replied.
“It is a miracle,” Romano wrote. “The shot was less than 1 mm from permanently blinding me. @drseanpaul also explained that the shot missed all the vital parts of my eye by moving around them like a marble hugging the curve of a bowl. (It’s an anomaly).”
The fragment cannot be removed, as it would most likely cause her to lose her vision.
“I should fully recover with no issues at all,” she wrote, “though I may never be able to get an MRI again.”
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In another video, another surgeon said, “She had one bullet that got lodged in the forehead, and it was such a powerful shot that it’s actually embedded in what we call the outer cortex of the frontal bone…We’re really lucky that it hit the part of the frontal bone that it did to protect your brain.”
Romano suffered a concussion from the accident and shared that the fragment in her skull will not move on its own.
“My attitude is gratitude,” she said.
Romano has been very public throughout her whole experience with her injuries.
“I had to make a really big decision as to whether or not I wanted to share this,” she shared on Valentine’s Day. “The reason why I decided to share it was because I didn’t want to run from it…I want to move on from it and use it as a source of growth and stronger faith.”
“With everything that happened, all I can think about is how grateful I am to be alive,” the mom of two shared earlier. “I love my daughters, husband, family, and friends so much” and “I saw my life flash before my eyes and I’m telling you, hug the people around you every chance you can. Life can change in an instant. 🙏”
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