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She can't look at her skin, scarred and chapped from the acid thrown on her during an attack by Islamist militia members in Baghdad.
Even worse are the mental scars she lives with daily, as one of perhaps thousands of Iraqi refugees living in the Detroit suburb of Dearborn who suffer from posttraumatic stress disorder, known as PTSD. troop withdrawal from Iraq, refugees continue to flow into America. Many of them, officials say, have suffered primary and secondary trauma. Only a fraction of them seek treatment.
Fleful, a Christian, was leaving her family's Baghdad jewelry store with her nephew cheap north face jackets denali in 2004 when four masked men drove down the same road. They struck her with the car, and then proceeded to beat her.
"I was trying to unmask them," she says. "They dropped acid on my body. They tried to burn my face. My flesh was like meat."
An onlooker shot his Kalashnikov into the air to try and scare off the men. Before fleeing, they slashed Fleful's stomach open and left her in the street to die.
Felful received treatment in Iraq and moved to Jordan for several years. The doctors needed to remove her uterus because cheap north face jackets of complications from her stomach injury. She also had reconstruction on her leg and needed treatment for the acid burns.
Her wounds are triggers bringing her back to that day in Baghdad. She relives every moment she sees the masks, and feels her skin burning. It is like living the attack all over again a classic symptom of PTSD.