There will be no flight longer than the one an Australian mother is taking right now.

She’s only 19 years old.

On Friday evening, Emma Parkinson was shot in the hip while attending a concert at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris.

At this point, Emma is the only known Australian injured in the terrorist attacks.

Emma’s mum is currently making the long 21-hour journey to visit her daughter who is recovering from surgery for the gunshot wound in hospital.

Although the reunion will no doubt be comforting for both, it’s a visit that no mother would ever want or expect to make.

Emma Parkinson’s aunt Sam Gunner says she “really needed a hug from her mum” pic.twitter.com/5RlT3j21Ct

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By all accounts, Emma’s resilience will help them move passed this incredibly horrific ordeal.

After living in Hobart, Emma travelled to Germany where she spent a year before moving to Paris for a job tutoring linguistics according to Daily Mail.

She had only been there for a few days when she went to the US band Eagles of Death Metal concert on Friday.

According to Daily Mail, Australia’s Ambassador in France, Diplomat Stephen Brady said it was at this concert that “she was shot in the hip, the bullet entered and exited”.

He continued that “the surgery yesterday involved cleaning the wound site.”

Despite being a victim of a terrorist attack, despite having to undergo surgery, despite no doubt feeling terrified in this foreign city, she’s still considered one of the ‘lucky ones’.

She was not one of the 129 people killed in the attacks.

This sentiment was reiterated by her friend Kate Rees who spoke to Sydney Morning Herald from Paris, saying “she was incredibly lucky about the place that the bullet went through and she’s just coming to terms with her luck.”

In a statement yesterday, Emma’s Aunt Sam Gunner said that Emma was “a high achiever with a strong connection to France” according to ABC.

Her Aunt mentioned that “She had been to France to study her Year 11 TCE on a scholarship”

She continued, “She spent the last approximately 12 months in Germany but she is obviously always had a pull back to France. It is somewhere she has always loved so she had recently accepted a position doing tutoring in Paris and had moved there 10 days ago from Germany.”

Despite everything she’s gone through, her Aunt was confident her niece would not be pulled down by what she’s been through.

“Emma is a courageous and brave person at heart… She is somebody who has a lust for life and … she certainly takes the bull by the horns when it comes to living her life.

“She has amazing capacity and resilience and we are confident that she will make a recovery but obviously she has an incredibly long road ahead of her in regards to what she has seen and what she’s heard and how she will cope with that into the future.”

According to ABC, Tasmanian Premier Will Hodgman said that although members of Emma’s family have spoken about her ordeal, “the young woman’s family have asked that I convey their request that their privacy be respected.”

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull spoke to Emma herself, and reiterated her bravery.

According to ABC, he said “I spoke to her on the phone and did my best to cheer her up. I told her that we were all thinking of her, all of us.”

He continued “Every parent can sympathise with the thought that their child has been injured in something like this, an incident like this, and I have to say … she’s a brave girl and in all the circumstances, in good spirits… But nothing will equal how good she will feel when her mum arrives in a day or so.”

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Although the only Australian known to be struck by a bullet, Emma was not the only one involved in the attacks at the concert.

According to Sydney Morning Herald, “Melbourne woman Sophie Doran and her friend pretended to be dead as gunmen sprayed the crowd with bullets.”

As well as Sophie, Sydney Morning Herald reported that 36-year-old expat John Leader and his 12-year-old son “were also at the concert at the time of the attacks, but were able to flee the building physically unharmed. Mr Leader has recalled lying on the ground while the gunmen systematically killed people in the hall.”

We hope for the speedy recovery of Emma. We hope that Emma and her mum are able to find comfort in being together.

We hope this is the only time they will experience the fear they lived through on Friday night.