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不同的是这次听到的故事让我久久不能平静

Katie Piper，一个83年前后的出生年轻英国女孩

年青，漂亮，职业模特，电视节目主持人

本来的生活不用说也可以想像，充满了Clubing，enjoying life, glowing future

2008.03.31日的几秒钟改变了她一生

他的前男友雇人朝她泼硫酸。。。左眼失明，三度烧伤

不错，如果把故事这样概括，不要说感染力了，创意都没有

英国人犯罪so 没创意，中国人前多少年都发生了几起的案子，手法太简单

但我感慨的当然不是犯罪手法了

且不说泼硫酸的残忍和危害性远大于一般刑事案件，且社会影响极恶劣

我感觉国内之前披露的案子的报道侧重的无非是犯罪人手法的残忍与恶劣，受害人现在的

的凄惨与无奈

但BBC报道Katie Piper的时候感觉完全不同

人类是有同性的，Katie在受袭后的感受和遭遇相信和其它类似受害者没什么不同

Ambulance crews had to wait an hour before being able to treat Piper, because of the risk presented by both the acid, which was still unidentified at that point, and Sylvestre, who could still have been nearby.

被硫酸泼后一个小时，相信她的世界只有Pain和Shock了

后来她接受了手术，移除面部的所有皮肤再移植上Matriderm，大概是人造皮肤吧，个人认为是人造真皮层一类的东西

据说是做为将来皮肤移植的foundation，Katie在节目中说到当时烧伤太严重已然到脂肪层了

Introduced coma 12天，只剩下38公斤（不要拿国内小巧江南MM的体重做衡量，西方人偏animal, 都很大很沉的。。。）30多个手术，一天23个小时佩戴塑料面具来抚平脸上伤痕

也许Katie是类似遭遇的人中幸运的，因为她得到了最好的治疗

但我感慨的，她流露出的发自内心的平和

摘录几段对话

原文见

http://www.lastbroadcast.co.uk/tv/interviews/v/9741-katie-piper-katie-my-beautiful-face-interview.html

影像见

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/breakfast/8314689.stm

Did you learn to accept it in time?

Not at first, it was hard when I went back home. The first time probably wasn’t the worst time of seeing my reflection. That was probably when I got home, and the burns started to shrivel up and get lumpier, and actually it got worse. As it was contracting and pulling down, I became more disfigured. I remember one time I was sat in my bedroom painting my toenails - because I still painted my toenails! - I had a little vanity box that I kept all my polishes in, and it had a tiny little mirror on the lid. And I had it on the floor, and I was sat on the floor painting my toenails, and out of the corner of my eye I saw this dreadful thing in my mirror. This big, red, shiny monster, all contorted, and I thought “Oh my Goodness, what on earth is that?” And I realised it was my reflection, and I just sat there and cried for an hour. I remember thinking “If my reflection shocks me, how will other people feel?”

Your throat was burned so badly you had to be fed by a tube into your stomach. Do you still have to use that?

I did have an external tube in my stomach, but that was removed about four months ago. I've been able to eat normally, but I have to drink eight of these special drinks-a-day, that have 200 calories in them, and proteins and things like that. They're kind of meal substitutes, and then I eat for pleasure. I can't eat enough to survive, because I've got scar tissue in the oesophagus. I've just had an operation to widen it, and then I'll be able to eat to live for a while. But then it will start to close down again, and it'll become too difficult to eat enough. I don't know what will happen in the long term, but the length of time between  needing the operations is increasing.