Earlier this year, a 6-year-old girl was shot and badly wounded during a firefight between U.S. and Afghan forces and the Taliban. Her father, a Taliban fighter, her mother and some siblings were all killed in the gun battle.Dr. Chance Henderson, a Texas-born orthopedic surgeon, was there when the girl, whom NPR is calling Ameera, was brought to the hospital at the Bagram Airfield outside Kabul."I remember her quite vividly there on that stretcher, and how tiny she looked," he says.Back in May, NPR reported that it was unclear whether Henderson — who has a daughter close to Ameera's age — and his medical team would be able to save Ameera's severely wounded left leg.The stakes were high, Henderson explained at the time, because the girl's "outlook on a life as a single amputee that does not have a family is much different than it would be for us in the States. Her future would be grim, and probably her lifespan would be short." This week, there's good news. Henderson says he succeeded
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