Doctors don't believe Malala suffered any serious brain damage after being shot by the Taliban on Oct. 9. Malala's family, who spoke at a news conference from her hospital on Oct. 26, described her survival as a "miracle for us."
Malala Yousafzai, 15, was reuinted with her family on Oct. 25 in the U.K. hospital where she is currently receiving treatment. The Taliban shooting victim was
flown to Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham on Oct. 15 from her native Swat valley, Pakistan to receive further treatment for the gunshot wounds she suffered on Oct. 9.
Doctors say Malala is "responding well" to treatment, and Malala's father,
Ziauddin Yousufzai, agreed upon seeing his daughter for the first time since she left Pakistan. "In the condition when I saw my daughter ... we were hopeful but we did not expect ... that she can talk, that she can see," he said in a news conference on Oct. 26. "I love her and this morning, last night when we met her, there were tears in our eyes and they were out of happiness, out of happiness." Ziauddin described how her survival and recovery was a "miracle for us," and that the family at one point feared they would have
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