The path to healing once again seemed out of reach for the Melanson family after Rosemarie, a mother of four who was shot in the chest. The bullet pierced through her lung, esophagus, spleen, liver and other organs.

Two of her daughters always attended the festival together and one had bought Rosemarie, 54, tickets as a Mother’s Day present.

She has been essentially hospitalized ever since and just underwent a 12th surgery and developed another complication.

Paige Melanson, 26, Rosemarie’s daughter, said the doctors had told the family she would need a year to recover from her injuries.

“Here we are, almost to the day a year at this point, and she's still in the hospital,” she said.

She said the complications from this surgery were particularly difficult for the family as Rosemarie had started to seem more like her normal self.

“She really started to, like, show signs of her that we haven't seen in a very long time,” she said. “My mom was back.”

The Las Vegas hospital where she is being cared for was a “second home” for her husband, Steve Melanson, 60, who sleeps at the hospital every night.

He said that while the latest complications felt like “the light has dimmed at the end of the tunnel” his wife was still fighting on.

“Rosemarie's never given up. She's still fighting, but she's not giving up,” he said.

Recently, Rosemarie began to show signs of improvement and this past Thursday she was finally able to go home.

"After having minor setback after surgery on September 4 she is and continues to heal," her husband wrote to family and friends on Facebook. "After almost a year in the hospital she has again proven to all of us that God has been listening all along answering everyone’s prayers in his time."

"As the one year anniversary approaches we will not look back rather focus ahead and celebrate her life of survival along with all the other survivors and pray quietly for their continued recovery and health at the same time honor and remember those who lost their lives," he added.