Imagine if a birth defect could save your life?
That’s the story of Petra Anderson, 22, a gifted musician who was shot in the head during The Dark Knight massacre last week, as she will not sustain any major brain damage thanks to a miraculous birth defect.
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Anderson was shot four times with shotgun pellets, one of which entered through her nose and lodged near the back of her skull, when suspected gunman James Holmes opened fire on a crowd of moviegoers during a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises.
According to the New York Daily News, during five hours of surgery to remove the pellet, doctors found what they described as a “miracle.”
The pellet reportedly entered her brain at the exact point of a barely-detectable defect – a tiny vein of fluid extending through her skull that only a CAT scan could catch.
Doctors said the bullet traveled through the vein, just missing the vital parts of Anderson’s brain, saying that the surgery “couldn’t have gone any better.”
Anderson was moved from the ICU Monday, according to a post by her older sister, Chloe Anderson, on a Facebook page for Petra.
She’s started to walk and speak again, as well.
The family has set up a page on the fundraising website, Indiegogo.com, to raise donations for the medical care of both Petra Anderson and her mom Kim, who was recently diagnosed with terminal cancer and has been given only months to live.
