I wonder if… God forbid, am I paralyzed?’ I wiggled my toes, then my ankles it was all good.

Interestingly, despite the severe damage to her body, which nearly cost her her life later at the hospital, she states,Īfter about 90 seconds passed, I realized, ‘Hmm… I may not be dying after all. Turns out that’s the initial bit of small intestine directly connected to the stomach. She went on to have 36 surgeries, losing her colon, gallbladder, one kidney, part of her pancreas, two-thirds of her stomach, and the duodenum, which, we’re not going to lie, we had to look up. In Deborah’s case, the bullet hit her in the side around her hip and traveled up, finally stopping around her rib cage on her left side. I remember thinking, ‘That felt like someone just chucked a small pebble at me.’” For example, consider this account from one Deborah Cotton who was struck by a bullet during a Mother’s Day parade in 2013- “When the bullet hit me, surprisingly it didn’t hurt at all.

While there are certainly exceptions, as we’ll get into shortly, according to the majority of firsthand accounts from people who’ve been shot we could find, having a hunk of searing hot metal traveling around Mach 1 tear through part of your body doesn’t really hurt much… at first.

asks: Odd question, but what does being shot feel like?

Wizard getting shot with a gun