“She’s always been that way. It comes from the inside. I think she came that way because she needed it.”
She is living a teenager's dream with a twist: being crowned homecoming queen two years after surviving a shot to the back of her head.
In the two years since the shooting, Deserae has had 10 brain surgeries and will have two more surgeries by the end of the year. Her mother, April Turner, says because of the severity of her injury she will need surgeries for the rest of her life. The determination shows in her school work. After the shooting, her mother says they opted for a certification of completion and enrolled her in the special education program at her high school. However, Deserae told her family she wanted to graduate.
“She obviously doesn’t have a normal teenage life anymore. She grew up very fast after the injury,” Turner said. “That week we cancelled some appointments, some therapies, we just skipped them for the week. We just let her do normal teenage, fun things. It was great.”“I feel honored, overjoyed and blessed that the student body would give me this honor,” Deserae said. “I’ve had a hard couple of years, but this week being homecoming queen, I was really happy.
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