Surviving Facial Trauma: Three Years Post-Dog Bite

Cindy Chu
8 min readJul 14, 2020

TW/CW: Photos of dog bite scars, talk of suicidal ideation, depression, and loss of loved ones.

**UPDATED 12/24/2020 Please scroll down to the bottom for a support group link I created for our community on Facebook**

About two years ago, I wrote a deeply personal essay about what it was like one year after a traumatic facial injury from a dog bite. Many of you have reached out to me since on Instagram and Twitter to talk about your own dog bites and facial injuries. I wrote that essay partially for myself and to be a…

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