SCHOOLGIRL DISFIGURED BY MUG-THROWING TEACHER SEEKS TREATMENT
KORAT — “I will get my smile back one day,” Naruedee Jodsanthia, a 17-year-old student in Korat, wrote recently in her Facebook bio.
The Matthayom 5 student used to smile. Now, because of damage to her facial nerves that left her face half-paralyzed, she can only manage a grimace. Her left eye cannot fully close, and the left side of her mouth doesn’t move with the right.
Naruedee’s disfigurement happened the moment a coffee mug thrown by her PE teacher struck her in the head at Chokechaisamakkhee School last month.
“Doctors told us that if she had arrived there a bit later, it would have been permanent,” Naruedee’s aunt, Matchima Supaeng, said Wednesday. “But doctors said it’s still a severe injury. It was rather grave. It’s been a month now, but she hasn’t gotten better.”