More than two years after her ex-boyfriend shot her in the face and left her for dead, a Madison Heights woman is struggling to get by. Stacey Bartley says that moment didn't take her life, but did take everything else.

Bartley says she's fighting the system, just to get by on a daily basis -- while the man who did this, Donnie Beverley, will spend the rest of his life in prison being taken care of on her dime.

"This is billing, medical records."

This is Stacey Bartley's life after May 19, 2006, the day Donnie Beverley opened her car door and shot her in the face, all in the parking lot of where she worked, American Hofmann.

Stacey Bartley, Domestic Violence Victim - "I knew he was going to shoot me and something made me turn my head."

And that saved her life. The bullet hit her cheekbone, shattering the left side of her face. She's now deaf in one ear, has a slew of medical issues and the bills to go with them.

Bartley - "I was making good money. I was living by myself, paying all my own bills, had my car paid for and that quickly it came to a very abrupt halt."

Bartley now draws disability -- $720 a month. Because of her injuries she can only work 20 hours week. She has no insurance and for a year didn't know where to turn. Patricia Miles with the Department of Rehabilitative Services found Bartley about a year ago. She says Bartley's not unlike most victims, people used to taking care of themselves, now left to fend for themselves.

Patricia Miles, Rehabilitative Services - "Here the person who did this will be taken care of all his life. He'll be fed. He'll be clothed. He'll get medical care and he'll have a roof over his head. Stacey lost everything."

She's slowly trying to get that back. Something that's difficult with what she calls a broken system.

Bartley - "People have no idea what the victims have to go through. This is 26 months later."

And it will be more than a year still until Stacey Bartley is eligible for Medicaid. In the meantime there are a few organizations that are continuing to help her.