356 days
One year ago today I was shot. The shooter fired 8 bullets, hitting me five times; once through the eye socket and out my neck, as well as into my arms, shoulder and elbow. The shock through my skull detached my retina, and the damage to my carotid artery caused me to have a stroke, which caused cause me to lose the sense of feeling in my whole left side. Most days I suffer through intense nerve pain, I have only partial vision in my left eye and the loss of feeling has caused me not to be able to type normally or tie my shoe. On nights I actually can sleep, it's reliving the nightmare sound of those gunshots that wakes me up, with the actual taste of gunpowder in my mouth. That night, I never saw who shot me clearly, I felt a presence approach me and sensed bad enough energy that made me attack first. I threw a an elbow that made him scream - his teeth marks are still there- and the next noise was the bullet that entered my face. The police are still wo
