She Thought She Had Popcorn In Her Teeth, But What She Actually Pulled Out Changed Her Life For The Better Last week, Georgia woman Ashley Smith felt something odd in her mouth. She had been eating popcorn, so she thought a kernel had become stuck in her teeth. She reached in to pull it out. But what she found instead of a popcorn kernel was unexpected, and something totally differenta piece of a bullet! See, 15 years earlier, a 3-month pregnant Ashley was hanging out in the backyard of her grandmothers house. A neighbor from down the street brought over his new pistol, which he believed to be unloaded. He pulled the trigger, and the gun fired unexpectedly. Thats when Ashleys life changed forever. The bullet struck smith and passed through her mouth and head. She survived miraculously, because the bullet did not touch her brain. But it left remnants of bullet in her head. She suffered from many side effects, though, including a brain aneurysm and several brain and ear surgeries. She lost sight in one of her eyes and received a prosthetic. The child she was bearing was starved of oxygen through the event and was born with many complications. The bullet remained in her head, causing her pain for years. Until the other day, it simply popped out. I reached in there and tried to pulled it out. About the second or third time it landed in my mouth. I coughed and it landed on the bathroom floor, she said. She is now free of most of the pain! She is also the mother of three kids, and thanks God every day that the bullet did not take her life. 