SAT . She Wasn’t Supposed to Make It Through the Night. Six Days Later, Maya Is Still Fighting.

Maya Edmonds was only 12 years old when a bullet shattered her childhood.

Shot in the head during a horrific school mass shooting in Canada, doctors warned her family that she likely wouldn’t survive the first night. The damage was devastating. Bullet fragments remain lodged in her brain. The left side of her brain suffered severe trauma where the bullet entered and exited. Her brain stem was also injured.

Maya still cannot breathe on her own.

Six days later — against every expectation — she is still here.

She remains in critical condition, but her mother is holding tightly to moments that feel nothing short of miraculous.

“She’s moving quite a bit more on her left side,” her mom shared. “There’s no movement on her right. But when she’s seemingly awake… her eyes are starting to flutter.”

When her mother stands at the foot of the hospital bed and gently massages Maya’s feet, she swears her daughter’s eyes follow the sound of her voice.

“I still sing to her. I talk to her. I tell her how proud we are — and that the entire world is cheering her on.”

Doctors have been honest. This recovery will not be linear. Progress may slow. It may plateau. And the road ahead is long, uncertain, and filled with fear.

Her mother knows that.

But she also believes something powerful has carried Maya this far.

“We cannot stop now,” she says. “We have so far to go yet.”

A little girl who wasn’t expected to survive the night is still fighting — breath by breath, moment by moment.

And a mother, clinging to faith, is daring to believe that miracles still happen.