City: Gallup, NM

Brain Injury: Tumors and concussion from almost being beaten to death.

Explanation of Mask: I am a survivor of violent crime. When I was 18 years old, two men broke into my apartment and beat me with a knife and gun and kicked me with steel toe boots to the head. I get really bad cluster headaches. I have short term memory loss. I have attempted suicide three times due to my pain. I became a drug addict to deal with my pain. I also suffer from anger problems, depression, I have to take painkillers, and I am on oxygen.