She has brain trauma, a broken eye socket, a shattered cheekbone, a broken nose and a broken lower and upper jaw.
Aggravating the pain for this Dunedin great-grandmother is that she has no memory of how her injuries were inflicted, or who did it to her.
The 70-year-old and her family believe the injuries came from a brutal home invasion, and police are investigating.
''I have no memory of whatever happened that night,'' she said.
''But somebody knows something about what happened. Absolutely.''
She and her daughters told the Otago Daily Times they believe she was the victim of a burglary gone wrong, with the person responsible for her injuries still at large.
An X-ray shows her skull is full of titanium screws, while her battered flesh had been knitted by hundreds of stitches.
She has remained in hospital because of the severity of her injuries since the November 27 incident, only able to drink soup or pureed food.
Making matters worse, the trauma returns at night.
She is unable to sleep in a bed, preferring a chair, and she is terrified at the prospect of returning to a home burgled twice in the weeks before her injuries.
The woman, who worked full-time, woke about 4am, with a bleeding nose, a closed eye and a mouth she could not shut and ''I thought, gosh I have had a stroke''.
Her husband, who slept in a different room of their St Kilda home, called an ambulance after seeing her bloodied face.
''I thought why is he doing that? I have only got a bleeding nose.''
Then she started to feel cold and the next she could recall was two paramedics telling her to sit up.
Surgeons later told the family her injuries were not from a fall, but consistent with being struck multiple times with an object.
Washing powder and meat, including a pig's head and seafood from a freezer, were taken from the house.
Her family believe a burglar attacked her as she woke up.
She wanted the offender off the streets and would like to meet him, face to face.
''I would slap them and swear quite profusely ... and tell them I hope they rot in jail.''
