Victim of Las Vegas shooting wakes up from coma after bullet struck her forehead

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Victim of Las Vegas shooting wakes up from coma after bullet struck her forehead

Tina Frost, 27, woke from a two-week coma on Friday and took her first steps since sustaining a gunshot wound to the forehead on Oct. 1, during what would become the largest mass shooting in American history.

“She opens her left eye just a lil and looks all around the room at us, taps her feet whenever music is playing,” Frost’s mother, Mary Watson Moreland, said in a statement posted on their GoFundMe page.

Frost was hit by one bullet at the Route 91 Harvest Festival, which pierced her frontal lobes of her brain before ultimately landing her right eye, ABC reported.

“She’s obviously anxious to get her wobble back on,” Moreland added. “We are so proud of our Tina, and everyone is amazed at every single movement she makes.”

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The Maryland woman has received an outstanding show of support from the public after surviving the near-death incident. A GoFundMe was set up for Frost by a family friend and raised $530,065 in donations, surpassing their original goal of $50,000 goal by a long shot.

"The doctors have been talking about Tina's next steps and are discussing other hospitals that will have all the specialists she'll need during her long road to recovery," her mother wrote. "She will be moving ICU to ICU, so the whole team will be on track with her recovery."

According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal, Frost will receive a donated skull implant from a medical supply company in Florida to reconstruct her forehead and the area surrounding her affected eye.

The NY Daily News reported that Frost is one of about 45 people who remain hospitalized following the Las Vegas tragedy, but she has been able to respond to basic commands, flashing a thumbs-up to her boyfriend and more recently breathing without the use of a ventilator, her GoFundMe page confirmed.

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