Attacked By Acid and Still So Strong

I am always amazed by acts of courage. By people who stay strong when life throws them in the worst possible situations. Such as this woman:



PORTLAND, Ore. — Bethany Storro had just bought a pair of sunglasses and was celebrating a new job when a woman walked up to her with a cup and said: "Hey pretty girl, do you want to drink this?"

The woman then splashed acid in the cup on Storro, who stumbled in pain and fell to the ground screaming. She felt agonizing pain as the skin on her face bubbled and sizzled and portions of her blouse disintegrated.

"It was the most painful thing ever," Storro, 28, said Thursday. "My heart stopped. It ripped through my clothing the instant it touched my shirt; I could feel it burning through my second layer of skin."



Police are seeking the woman in the Monday attack as Storro, with her head wrapped in white bandages, recounted Thursday how only days before, she had been celebrating a new job and a recent move to Vancouver, Wash., from Idaho.

But she insisted that she would not let the attack in Vancouver wreck her life, and laughingly marveled how her eyesight was spared just minutes after she bought those sunglasses.

Storro said she had spinal meningitis twice as a child, which robbed her of most of her hearing.

"Oh my gosh, to be hard of hearing and blind? That would drive them nuts," she said, laughing and pointing at her parents, Joe and Nancy Neuwelt. "They have to be in the same room for me to hear them. I'm just so glad it's a miracle."


Though her face may be scarred forever she is keeping up a positive attitude and trying her best to stay strong. What makes one person be so optomistic when another would simply give up? I admire her courage and her determination that this attack will not ruin her life. I also wonder how low a person can go to feel that they need to disfigure another. In a way it's worse than any other attack. You can stab someone and they can recover...or you can hit someone and they will recover..but, when you throw acid on someone is comes from such a deep level of hate that it's downright scary. One woman is in the depths of her dispair so much that she needs to maim another while the woman she maims ends up having hope and positivity in her heart.