If she can't, the whole family, Aesha included, may end up moving to Germany.

CNN: Readers respond as Aesha's surgery and life progresses

Stories like Aesha's inspire us, girls, struggling to live a normal and deserved life.

CNN: Readers respond as Aesha's surgery and life progresses

When Miena couldn't get around right after her soccer injury, Aesha propped pillows under her foot.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

While the separation has been hard, it has helped Aesha step into new roles.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

Whether she knows it or not, whether she means to or not, Aesha is making a difference.

CNN: Readers respond as Aesha's surgery and life progresses

"I suffered a lot in my life, " Aesha said, as Jamila translated, days before her first surgery last June.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

And then there was this one, from a young woman who saw in Aesha's story something she knows too well.

CNN: Readers respond as Aesha's surgery and life progresses

Mati and Jamila had talked about adopting a young child from Haiti or foster care, but now they have Aesha.

CNN: Saving Aesha

Aesha's transformed face, and her sense of peace and comfort in her new Maryland home, is a testament to her development.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

If she can't practice medicine in the United States, he says, the whole family -- Aesha included -- may move to Germany.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

It has been tough to be absent, especially around Aesha's surgeries.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

But as she progresses physically and emotionally, in other respects Aesha's life is on hold -- teetering between inertia and, at times, regression.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

Their flexibility as a family, their ability to pick up as a unit and move for work, is limited in part by Aesha's surgeries.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

When a pinched nerve in Mati's back left him bedridden, Aesha would pad upstairs to his bedroom to see what she could bring him.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

No mirror can reflect to Aesha, or anyone else, those answers.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

And after meeting Mati, his wife Jamila Rasouli-Arsala and their daughter from Jamila's first marriage, Aesha campaigned to join them through months of middle-of-the-night phone calls.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

Unable to wash her own hair after her surgeries, Aesha sits in a small chair and leans back over the bathtub so Mati can do it.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

Aesha sets the table while the woman she sometimes calls mother, sometimes aunt, prepares a traditional Afghan feast featuring heaping platters of rice, lamb and chicken kebab.

CNN: Saving Aesha

The phone calls from Aesha began soon after Mati and Jamila met her in July, when she had regaled and delighted them with her humor and stories.

CNN: Saving Aesha

After Miena took showers, Aesha braided her wet hair.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

And then, of course, he worries about Aesha.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

If you are interested in making a donation to Aesha's personal account to support her on her journey, go to the website set up in June 2012 by the family who is caring for her: Aesha's Journey.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete

Aesha is barefoot and in jeans.

CNN: Saving Aesha

Aesha pipes in with her preference.

CNN: Saving Aesha

Aesha is at peace in Maryland.

CNN: For Aesha, healing comes in many forms

Aesha saw what she wanted.

CNN: Saving Aesha

Aesha wanted a family.

CNN: Aesha's progress: Afghan woman's nose nearly complete