Hi there
Its been a while I know, in my defence accessing a fast broadband connection to blog and visit blogsville regularly has been virtually impossible, I know because I have spent money buying the next 'fast speed broadband internet connection and watched the hour tick by whilst I try to publish a commment in just one blog visited (grits teeth)Please dont be mad at me
As you know I moved to Lagos and then moved to Abuja. I am kinda finding it tough and expensive. I flew into Abuja and jumped right into work. Then after work, I had to spend a few good amount on making where I stay comfy. Its a long story but the parts that really upsets me is having to get home late, needing to eat and write my report on 1000pages document due the next day (so much for reasonable time consideration)walking into my little room and seeing my bathroom flooded for the umpteenth time. Plus the water spread to my bedroom area and tv area where electrical plugs are located..and for the umpteenth time the caretaker says walahi he will work on the next day but needs xxx thousands for xxx part for the job. I now have to work long enough to take time of and look for a plumber I can trust in a strange land. Meanwhile I am behind in my reports..Then the money!!!!! I am scared to calculate how much I have spent DAILY since I got here but am thinking 1. I spent much more schooling and living abroad, 2. The job is a great opportunity and just Gods favour on me. 3. People have faced far worse and yet are far more happier and at peace than unngrateful me. I welcome you to the story of Katie Piper. The second part of this series has to do with a case of assault, so brutal that I tear up as I write this.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Katie Piper: victim of a rape and an acid attack by a jealous boyfriend
A model and aspiring TV presenter who had sulphuric acid thrown in her face has revealed details of her courageous battle to recover and pioneering surgery to treat her burns.
Katie Piper was left fighting for her life when her jealous boyfriend Daniel Lynch raped her and then arranged for another man to throw the corrosive liquid on her.
The acid burned through all four layers of skin on her face and some spilled down her throat, damaging it so badly that she needs to be fed through a tube into her stomach.
She was left blind in one eye and has undergone more than 30 operations on her face and throat. Surgeons had to remove the skin from her entire face and use an artificial skin substitute and skin grafts from other parts of her body to rebuild it.
The 26-year-old's recovery was feature in a Channel 4 documentary later this month, and she has waived her right to anonymity over the sexual assault. In the film, she says she was a “fun person” before the attack on March 31 last year.
She said: “I was a fun person. I had lots of friends. If I went somewhere and people met me for the first time they would say ‘Oh, you're really pretty’ and I would think ‘Yeah, I am’.”
In the wake of the attack and only able to communicate by writing, she told her mother Diane “kill me”.
She now wears a plastic pressure mask for 23 hours a day to flatten her scars and keep in moisture.
She said: “I think I've got the chance to build a life.
“I don't it's going to be that easy, but I wanna try. I want to move on from my attack, and I don't want to be a scared little child. I want to blossom into a confident, able woman.”
”My dream would be just to live a normal life and after all this be able to meet somebody again and learn to trust a guy and the normal dream: a girl wants to get married and have kids.”
She has thanked the hospital staff who saved her life and have cared for her since the attack.
“Coming to terms with the fact that my life as I knew it before the acid attack was over, and that my facial appearance had changed forever, has been incredibly difficult,” she said. “I wouldn't have been able to rebuild my life without the support of all the staff at Chelsea and Westminster.
“I want to say thank you to everyone in the Burns Service, in particular my surgeon Mohammad Jawad who has done an amazing job of rebuilding my face - it has exceeded my expectations of what I ever thought would be medically possibly. I'm absolutely thrilled.”
She told the News of the World that she had decided to go public to raise awareness of the plight of burns victims.
Miss Piper said: “I've decided to tell my story so that people know what these men did to me. To help people understand who have ignorance about people that look different, and for people not to be frightened of burns and the stigma attached to it, to understand that it's still the same person underneath.”
Read more: http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/model-katie-pipers-struggle-after-rape-and-acid-attack-14535601.html#ixzz0jQVjGWFG
Latest news: http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/mar/13/katie-piper-acid-burns-campaigner
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I am guessing that the moral of this tale is look at challenges as stepping stones to opportunities..You never know whats behind that seeemingly unmovable mountain
Mena
9 comments:
Wow, some men are just the devil himself not his incarnate any more.
Thank God for her life. She is even lucky to have surgery...This is so sad.
sad story- I am glad she is doing well. And Mena I am glad you find stories like this to get you through challenging times. Hang in there things will soon get better :) God bless!
We thank God for science and medicine. She almost looks as good as new. I hope the guy is cooling his ardour in some maximum security jail? smh
Sorry to hear about your housing travails!!
wow..she looks alright now! That guy should be locked up..he's an animall!
She is a very lucky lady and she looks happier now.
- LDP
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