Miss Malala

It seems like I am writing my blogs in sort of an order today, or there has just been a lot of news today about the same sort of things. I looked at an article and some videos related to a fifteen year old girl named Malala Yousufzai (there is no way I could tell you how to pronounce that name). She was apparently shot in Pakistan for simply wanting and going to school. The bullet that was shot into her head actually grazed her brain and went down into her jaw and throat. The girl was flown to the UK for medical treatment and has been in a medical induced coma for the past few weeks.

Malala Yousufazi
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/oct/10/malala-yousafzai-taliban-misogyny

            The article that I actually found was about her recovery. She woke up from the coma on Tuesday and actually stood up with the nurses on Friday. She isn't able to talk right now because she has a tube in her throat but she was able to communicate well enough to give permission to share this information on the news.

The doctors said that there is obviously physical damage to the brain but she does have brain function and enough motor function to be able to stand. The most interesting thing that I found was the bullet’s path. It entered above the back of her left eye, and traveled down her jaw into her shoulder where it logged itself in the tissue above her shoulder blade. The bullet was close enough to her brain that it caused damage but only through the shock waves of the bullet.

I think this girl is lucky and so brave to be publicly known for wanting to go to school in her country. I really hope she recovers well enough to function by herself and possibly go to school somewhere else because I don’t really think I would go back to Pakistan if I were her. (320)