Hello World, My name is Shawna Hunter-Flint just your average happily married 39 year old mother of 2....who has a disfigured face. Yes a face that cannot hide in the crowd, a face that people remember but not always for the good and a face that rude people like to stare at or say rude things about. A face that I cannot hide.
You see at the age of 17 I was working at grocery store when a teenage girl came in with another girl to rob us. It was a busy friday night, like always, it was a cold January evening in Columbus Oh. While I was checking out a man the girl, 14 years old, pulled out a sawed off shot gun. As I was giving her the money the gun went off while it was sitting on my lower jaw. I passed out for about 10 seconds, long enough to fall to the floor, and she ran out the door.
If you want to know all of the details you can see me on youtube. Just search "confronting the girl who shot me in the face" and you can watch my story there.
Now I would like to tell my story where I am today, Oct 21 2013.
I had over 100 surgeries and am awaiting the biggest one yet. I have very little lower jaw on each side left, no teeth, my bottom lip is turned inside and I have lots of scars all over my body from where they have taken bones ( I feel like Ms. Potato Head and her bucket of parts.)
I will soon have a titanium lower jaw placed along with skin, tissue and arteries from my thigh to cover inside and out. The surgery is expected to take several hours and I will spend 5 to 7 days in the hospital if everything goes ok. I will have a feeding tube for 2 to 3 months and will have a trach placed while I am in the hospital.
Well this is the Gist of my life...I will try to update often to explain my life, my story
