MaxiAids Joins The Doctors TV Show to Support Victim of Near-Fatal Domestic Assault
November 7, 2011 – Farmingdale, NY – As the month of October (which is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month) came to an end, MaxiAids recently had the opportunity to join The Doctors TV Show in supporting the recovery of a woman who has turned a horrific attack into an inspirational story.
Carmen Tarleton barely had time to react when the door of her Thetford, Vermont home was suddenly shattered in the middle of the night on June 10, 2007, and she found herself trying to block blows being delivered by her ex-husband with a baseball bat.
She did, however, manage to direct her two daughters to get a phone, lock themselves in a bathroom and call the police. As she drifted in and out of consciousness during the assault Carmen felt her skin burning, which she would later find out was due to the corrosive industrial chemical lye being squirted on her.
Carmen says that when she heard a police officer’s voice, she knew she would live. But doctors initially weren’t so optimistic. With multiple bone fractures and severe burns over 80 percent of body, she wasn't given much chance of survival. She was placed in a medically induced coma where she would remain for three and a half months.

