“What happened, it's part of me, part of my
life and it's all the time in my mind and with me. But I have to live, and I have to love,” said Aesha
Mohammadzai, the young woman who was brutally assaulted in Afghanistan by her
husband after she tried to escape from him. She is on the road to recovery as
doctors continue to rebuild her face.
Aesha, who believes she is 21 or 22, moved
to the U.S. two years ago after fleeing the war-torn country and is now six
months into her surgery at a hospital in Bethesda, Maryland.
According to Daily Mail, as part of the
life-changing treatment, her forehead has ballooned and dark, drooping flesh
now covers where her nose once was - before her husband sliced it off.
“I don't care,” Daily Mail quoted her as told
to CNN. “Everybody has some kind of problem. At the beginning, I was very
scared. I was scared to look at my face in the mirror. I was scared to think
what will happen in the future to me. But now I'm not scared anymore. Now I
know the meaning of life, how to live. There, I couldn't understand how to
live.'
The report said that doctors placed an
inflatable silicone shell under the skin of her forehead and gradually filled
it with fluid in order to expand her skin and provide them with extra tissue
for her new nose.
Aesha’s story was first told in August 2010
by Time magazine, who published a harrowing cover photo of her - horrifying
people around the world and symbolising the oppression of Afghan women.
When she was 12, her father promised her in
marriage to a Taliban fighter to pay a debt. She was handed over to his family
who abused her and forced her to sleep in the stable with the animals.
But when Aesha attempted to flee, she was
caught and her nose and ears were hacked off by her husband as punishment. Left
for dead in the mountains, she crawled to her grandfather's house.
She managed to get to a U.S. medical
facility and then was taken to a secret shelter in Kabul before she was flown
to the U.S. by a charity to stay with a family.
Aesha is now optimistic and cheerful. She prefers
watching Bollywood films rather than American TV. Aesha is being treated at the
Walter Reed National Military Medical Centre in Bethesda.
All in all, a reason to feel happy that she
is recovering and hopeful.
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