A Springfield woman who says her husband set her on fire is speaking publicly for the first time.

Hannah Kendrick is still recovering nearly nine months after the attack.

She suffered burns over 60%-70% of her body.

Kendrick's husband, Antonio Draper, is still inside the Greene County jail waiting his day in court.

If convicted, Draper could face life in prison.

Kendrick says she’s struggling to get her life back.

Kendrick’s three young girls are spending their summer inside.

Kendrick says, "It effects our day to day. I can't take them to the park or play with them at the pool."

Kendrick can’t take them because her skin is too sensitive to be in the sun.

Kendrick recalls the night of the attack. “I woke up to gasoline on my face and in my nose. I could smell it and taste it.” Kendrick says, “He was standing at the end of my bed with a gas can. His eyes were huge and scary."

Police say Draper set her on fire after Kendrick threatened to leave him.

Kendrick describes her body as a checkerboard.

All of her skin is different colored patches.

Pig skin even covers part of her back.

Kendrick spent four weeks in coma and has been in and out of the hospital ever since.

Kendrick says, "My arms locked up. So I had to go back in so they could cut my arms at my elbows. “

Kendrick's doctors want her to go back to the hospital but this mother of three says she can't afford to miss anymore work.

Kendrick says, "I'm going to provide a life for my kids. We can't live on handouts. I want to do more I don't want to be on disability."

Kendrick says she can handle the physical pain but is still working on the emotional pain.

She says, "When he was sober and clean he was a great man."

Reminders of what happened are all around Kendrick.

The carpet is still burned. The headboard of her bed still charred.

The mother says she desperately wants to heal so she can move on and out of the house she nearly died in.

Kendrick says her husband was not abusive until he started abusing drugs and alcohol.

She says anyone in a similar relationship should immediately get the family in counseling.

Kendrick says women shouldn’t just take a users word they that will eventually get help.

She says if someone is going to class or counseling then a family has a chance of rehabilitating.

Draper is still in jail.

He'll be in court in September facing first degree domestic assault and armed criminal action charges.