The article recounts Edith Langford's harrowing experience of being accidentally shot as a child. On her ninth birthday, while celebrating a milestone, she was critically injured due to her cousin's misplaced shotgun discharge. This incident caused extensive physical damage and lifelong trauma. Langford reflects on the incident's lasting effects, connecting her personal trauma to the broader context of gun violence in the U.S. She notes the alarming statistics of child fatalities due to shootings and emphasizes how each new tragedy brings back painful memories of her experience.
Each shooting tragedy in the US takes me back to that porch. In recent years, I am back in that place far too often.
His hopeless response would end up traumatizing me more than the actual gunshot.
There was no oxygen or pressure applied to stop the bleeding. I repeated my phone number in my head over and over.
A visiting trauma surgeon stopped the bleeding and repaired, rerouted, repurposed, or removed multiple organs.
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