Utalia! Student forced to finish high school online after bullies labelled her A WITCH

Piece by: Caren Nyota
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A student who had to finish high school online due to bullies calling her a witch has found her confidence after undergoing surgery to break her jaw.

Lauren Whitt, 20, of Evergreen, Colorado, has received double jaw surgery to repair a deformity that caused her to have an enlarged chin in addition to making it difficult for her to eat, breath and speak.

Meanwhile, she was bullied intensely over her appearance, as both male and female classmates would repeatedly call her 'witch' and 'ugly'.

After transferring to another school where the teasing didn't get any better, she decided to complete her last two years of high school online.

Miss Whitt said: 'My surgeon told me that my underbite was the most severe he had ever seen.

'He said that this was one of the most complicated surgeries of his career.' 

Because of complications from the surgery, Miss Whitt's recovery was even more difficult than the average patient.

After the bone grafting failed and caused an infection, she had to have that part of the surgery redone.

Another part of the bone grafting then cracked, which led to her having a third operation.

Her most recent complication involved a tooth that died as a result of a malfunction in the nerves. Miss Whitt had to have her gums cut so that the tooth could be fixed from the inside.

She said: 'I had a pretty rough recovery. I woke up swollen and miserable.'

'Because of my complications, my recovery has been ten times worse than it should have.'

After having to stay on a liquid diet for six weeks, Miss Whitt has slowly started to introduce solid foods to her diet again.

The liquid diet caused her to drop to 113 pounds (8 stone), 22 pounds (one stone eight pounds) less than her healthy weight.

Miss Whitt now cuts her favourite foods up into small pieces, including pizza and hamburgers and is hoping that she will soon have the ability to bring them completely back into her diet.

She said: 'It's going to be pretty cool when I'm finally able to eat a burger again without cutting it up.'

Although she refers to the procedure as the most awful experience she's endured and she is still recovering four months later, she thinks that everyone with an underbite should consider it.

Miss Whitt said: 'It's been my most awful and most rewarding experience so far.

'Anyone considering this surgery should do it because it can change your life.'

Source: Daily Mail