If she does not recover pretty much full brain function, her mental states will be altered, and she may not be able to function in Congress as she did before the bullet damaged her brain.

如果她全面的脑功能不是恢复的这么好的话，她的精神状况就会发生改变，那她就不能像脑部中枪前一样就职于国会了。

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Parallel and multiple thoughts and streams of consciousness were sort of running along: 'I have to save my head because if I get a bullet in my brain I'm dead.

大脑中出现了两种或多种想法和意识流：“我得护住我的头，因为如果子弹打进头部，我就会死。”

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The teen had been in critical condition, but doctors removed the bullet and she has no major brain or nerve damage.

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Darren, 34, died instantly on 1 January when the bullet went into his brain and he was shot twice in his arms.

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However, it was still unknown Sunday whether nerve connections might have been severed by the bullet and skull fragments propelled through her brain.

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