Former Disney star Christy Carlson Romano nearly lost her eyes as she shot Clay pigeons along with her husband Brendan Rooney on her birthday.
Saturday, 40-year-old actress I shared an Instagram video After she was “stroked in five places” by “another party,” she shows injuries to her face, including a large wound under her right eye.
In her post, Romano explained that the outing was meant to be a “present” for Rooney's birthday.
“So I shot my eyes. “It wasn't funny,” the “Stephens by chance” star said with a swinging sigh at the beginning of the clip.
“I was shot here. She continued, pointing to the bullet hole under her eyes.
“There are fragments here,” Romano said.
“There's a fragment here,” she adds, pointing to the mark on her forehead.
Romano lifted his hair up and showed another wound on his forehead, saying, “We've cleaned it.”
“I am very grateful to the entire first responder. So they are the most amazing superheroes who take care of us in our most hopeless times.”
Romano expressed his gratitude for the care he received at St. David South Austin Medical Center in Austin, Texas.
“This was really bad tonight,” she said.
“Everything is kind of clean-up. But I have to say, I was shot in the face, and I live to tell the story.”
“Please be grateful every day.”
In the caption of her post, Romano explained more about the tragic incident on Friday.
“Yesterday was my husband's birthday and I took him to shoot a clay dove as a present,” she wrote.
“We had another party with us and they were creepyly fired in the wrong direction and shot in the face.”
The star of “Special Forces: The World's Toughest Test” said that her husband “suddenly fell into action, assessed me and rushed to the hospital. I was hit in five places, but One was less than an inch after hitting my right eye directly.”
“Unfortunately, the fragments remain behind my eyes and are too risky for surgically removal at this time,” she added.
“The doctors will continue to monitor me.”
Romano pointed out that she “can see normally at this point.”
“Everything that happened, all I'm thinking is how grateful I am to be alive. I love my daughter, husband, family and friends.
“I see my life flashing right in front of my eyes, I tell you and embrace the people around you on every opportunity you can. Life can change soon .”
Romano and Rooney first met in February 2011 and tied the knot in December 2013.
The couple shares their daughters Isabella Victoria, age 8, and Sofia Elizabeth, age 5.
The screenwriter paid tribute to his wife in a comment on his Instagram post.
“You are the bravest, toughest, stoic and bad woman I have ever met,” he said.
“I'm so grateful that you're alive. I'm so grateful that you're a mother to our children. I don't know what to do without you.”
“I love you more than life itself,” he added with a prayer hand emoji.
Rooney also shared a video of his wife on his Instagram story, adding a red heart emoji, writing “Kiss your loved one.”
Crai Pigeon Shooting is an outdoor sport in which an upside-down circular disc made of limestone and pitch used as a target is propelled into the air by a machine called a trap.
Shooters use a shotgun to project hundreds of small lead balls on each shot to hit the clay pigeon.
Sports are not usually considered dangerous as long as safety measures are followed.
