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"BROKEN FACE, BROKEN DREAMS…
BUT SUNITHA’S SPIRIT REMAINS UNBROKEN"

Daughter of a daily wage electrician, 24-year-old Sunitha Nair served as a pillar of support to her family. She was an employee with a software company and was simultaneously doing her undergraduate degree in physiotherapy. Living away from home, she often travelled to spend her weekends with her family. It was on one such fateful trip – on 27 August 2011 – that Sunitha’s blossoming future came to a screeching halt!

Seated in the back of the car she was travelling in, Sunitha was dozing off when the car met with an accident and her face smashed into a rock! The impact of the crash was such that her face and skull cracked instantly like a mirror, pieces of which were strewn all around! Passersby quickly rushed her to a hospital!

At the hospital, she was diagnosed with extensive facial injuries and multiple fractures that have displaced the left half of her face. The sight was gory, her jaw hung loose, nose broken away, eyes completely damaged, facial bones dislocated, skull fractured… But Sunitha survived it all.

Doctors have concluded that she needs a complete facial-reconstruction surgery, something like arranging the various pieces of a jigsaw puzzle! The first of the many surgeries was conducted on 17 September 2011, where bones from her leg and hip were removed to restructure the shape of her face. An additional four steps of surgery need to be conducted on Sunitha in order to help her resume normalcy in all aspects.

Sunitha is extremely positive and chirpy in spite of her pain and agony. She has lost her sense of smell and speech, but not her spirit. Though she is unable to talk, she communicates by writing! Her amazing willpower will lead her to the road of recovery with lightening speed, for sure!

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