Malala Yousafzai recovers from 6th surgery

As US troops have continued their withdrawal and evacuation from Afghanistan, which is now under Taliban control, Malala Yousafzai was in a Boston hospital bed — recovering from her sixth surgery to repair the damage a Taliban fighter did to her body nearly a decade ago.

In a post published Tuesday on Podium, the 24-year-old Nobel Peace Prize-winning activist viscerally details her injuries and treatment, reports People.

And she shares how she's been responding to unfolding events in Afghanistan while working to get women and girls out of the country.

Yousafzai was 15 and a student in Pakistan when a Taliban gunman boarded her school bus and shot her in the face in 2012.

As she writes in the post published Tuesday, "the bullet grazed my left eye, skull and brain — lacerating my facial nerve, shattering my eardrum and breaking my jaw joints."

When she came to after being put into an induced coma, Yousafzai writes, she discovered a portion of her skull had been removed to create space for brain swelling.

She was in pain, had blurry vision and could not speak.

"I recognised only half of my face," she writes. "The other half was unfamiliar — black eye, sprinkles of gun powder, no smile, no frown, no movement at all. Half of my hair had been shaved off. I thought the Taliban had done this to me too, but the nurse said the doctors shaved it for surgery."

The portion of her skull bone that been removed, she adds, had been relocated to her stomach. Over time and after other procedures, it was again removed and now sits on a bookshelf in her home, encased in glass. (She shared a photo of the case in her post.)