and when i landed on the car it formed the keloid. >> akilah is very thoughtful, caring, intelligent, very active, enterprising young lady. the way she dealt with the accident that happened last year she's been more than i can ever even have imagined. i don't know if i could have been as strong as she has been this last year and a half. >> i didn't know what my injuries were so i didn't think it was that big of a deal. >> akilah went through i think seven operations. >> i first noticed a keloid, i think, three months when i was in the hospital. >> personally it wasn't that bad to me. but i know akilah felt very self-cococious about it. >> what we are going to basically be doing is just longer than it already is. >> the keloid made me feel very insecure about myself because it was just this bump on me that like i didn't ask for. i just didn't like taking pictures and like beingngeen really. >> i knew very little about keloids except when i was in college i belonged to alpha phi alpha fraternity. a lot of guys got brands and somomof those used to keloid. mine didn't. but it was ugly. >>