It was typically busy at the clinic the day a woman we’ll call “Sophia” arrived to have a cyst removed from her foot. As Sophia was pointing to the location of the cyst, the examiner couldn’t help but notice a rather grotesque and poorly healed scar that ran along Sophia’s forearm. Curious – perhaps even suspicious – the examiner asked Sophia how she’d gotten it.   It was more than 20 years earlier that the young mother found herself scurrying from a conflict that was brewing outside her village in Nicaragua. The Sandinistas and Daniel Ortega were still in power, but they were losing their foothold, so there was trouble in the air. As Sophia waded across the river with equal parts celerity and vigilance, she felt the shock of hot lead slam into her right arm, her strong arm, and streak upward until it finally exited at her elbow. The greater tragedy is that Sophia always used her right arm, her strong arm, to more easily car... » Click here for the full story.