TIME Magazineのインスタグラム(time) - 6月3日 02時40分

Twelve years after Colin Goddard survived the massacre at @virginia.tech, which killed 32 people and was the worst #school shooting in American history, he tries not to dwell on that spring day in French class. But he has dozens of constant reminders: bullet fragments lodged in his body, leaching toxins into his blood. Like hundreds and possibly thousands of #survivors across the country, Goddard, a 33-year-old father of two, suffers a lesser-known and often unrecognized side effect of gun violence: lead poisoning. One bullet pierced his right shoulder cleanly, but three others shattered when they hit his hips and left knee. The fragments didn't pose life-threatening risks, so trauma surgeons left them in—a widely accepted emergency room practice. Now, with his blood lead levels seven times higher than what's considered safe, Goddard swallows 31 pills a day as part of his chelation treatment, a chemical process used to rid the body of excess or toxic metals. It only works as long as he takes them. If he stops, the lead levels rise again. “I was told, ‘You’re going to be fine in the long-term,’ and that’s not right,” Goddard tells TIME’s Melissa Chan. “It throws you back when you realize you’re not out of the woods yet, and this terrible day is not entirely behind you.” Read more at the link in bio. Photographs by @bryanthomasphoto for TIME

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