,,I felt a stabbing pain there, but was still able to cycle to the practice of my GP”, continues the Flemish. The doctor told her that the wound on her neck resembled a gunshot wound. However, the GP did not send her to the emergency room, but when her mother and stepfather started to worry, Valeriya was taken to the hospital after all.
What the surgeon found on her neck during a five-hour operation defies imagination. The doctor took out a complete bullet. There were also some fragments in the wound. Valeriya: ,,The neurosurgeon spoke of a miracle. A few inches deeper into my neck and the spinal cord would have been hit. I would now be in a wheelchair for good. What exactly happened remains a mystery for now.
“It’s a mystery to me what happened in the backyard,” she continues. “It’s not that I have enemies and according to the doctor the shot was not aimed directly at me.” When the shot hit her, the student was sitting on the terrace with her back to the garden. “This is a residential area, with no forest or hunting area nearby.” According to some neighbors there is a man nearby who regularly shoots birds illegally from his garden.
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