“I’m so great,” Jamoneisha “Jamoni” Merritt gushed to the Daily News.
Jamoni, spent 11 days at Harlem Hospital. “Now I’m dancing and listening to music,” she said. Jamoneisha Merritt is beaming again after her friend severely burned her in a prank gone wrong.
But her journey back to full health is not yet over. The bubbly middle-schooler will likely miss the start of her 7th grade classes and require home-schooling, her mother said. “Her arm is still raw it hasn’t healed yet … [and she] can’t go outside in the sun,” said Ebony Merritt.
“It’s going to take maybe about six months for all her color to come back in.” Jamoni was sleeping over a friend’s house on Aug. 7 when a pal doused her with scalding water in a prank that went gruesomely wrong. The incident resembled the “Hot Water Challenge,” a YouTube-inspired trend in which kids pour boiling water on unsuspecting friends.