A 21-year-old British woman, who was attacked with acid in June, has shared the first pictures of her recovery to celebrate Eid.
Similarly, this aspiring model Resham Khan, 21, found her life in a turmoil when she and her cousin, Jameel Mukhtar were attacked with corrosive liquid in June in Beckton, London.
Resham Khan, a business management student, was attacked with sulphur acid on her 21st birthday on June 21 while on a morning drive in London with her 37-year-old cousin Jameel Muhktar.
Three months later, the brave woman has come up with a story of incredible recovery and shared the photographs of the same on social media.
But Resham’s journey was full of pain and being in that situation, she has blogged about the story of her recovery and how people reacted on the same. Three months later, the aspiring model shared the stunning photographs of her recovery with no visible scarring.
Khan started writing blog posts after her attack to share updates about her case, her experience, and her path to recovery.
After she and her cousin were attacked, they tried to escape but their car crashed into a fence. “I saw my clothes burning right in front of me,” Khan wrote.
“They ran out of the car, stripped off on the motorway, ran around flagging people down pleading for water naked. After 45 minutes on the motorway waiting for emergency services, a passing driver gave them a lift to the local hospital. They ran through the hospital naked screaming,” Khan’s classmate, Daniel Mann, wrote on the Go Fund Me website to raise money for her treatment.
Everyone knows I'm a sappy sod but @ReshKay_'s Eid pics have honestly made me well up with happy tears.
— Mary-Jo (@brayfordbird) September 4, 2017
Khan said her mental state was “up and down” and physically she was dealing with scars and spots of burns. The acid attack left her skin so tight that she was unable to close her eyes and open her mouth properly, she added.
Her cousin suffered serious injuries across the body from the attack, leaving his right eye damaged.
The acid attack, Khan said, has encouraged her to look at the bigger picture.
“If everything happens for a reason, then surely one of the reasons this happened to me was so that I could take this opportunity to make sure something positive came from such a traumatic and vicious attack,” she wrote.
“I keep treating the scars, I’m hoping I’ll be back to the old me soon.”
