A South Carolina woman lost her hand in a freak hair drying accident, and the tragic injury forced her to leave her valued career as a dog caretaker.
According to reports, Mary Wilson was blow-drying her hair before going to bed at her James Island home on February 7 when she passed out while the hair dryer was still running on high power. 15 News.
She was lying on the floor for about 20 minutes when her partner found her on top of the hair dryer.
“She’s telling me, ‘Your hands, your hands,'” Wilson explained.
“I look at my hand. It doesn’t even register that it’s part of me. It also looks unrecognizable.”
She was rushed to hospital where doctors were forced to amputate her hand and wrist due to severe nerve damage caused by the heat from the hair dryer.
Ms Wilson believed the impact from the instrument knocked her out.
She claimed that the blow dryer didn’t have an auto-shutoff feature like other hot hair tools, and even if it had an auto-shutoff feature, she might still be holding her hand.
“As is common with curling irons and curling irons, it has a ceramic plate that turns off when it reaches a certain temperature,” she says.
“If I had done that, my injury might not have been as bad.”
Before his life-changing injury, Wilson worked as a dog groomer, but now that he only has one hand he has been forced to give up that career and is unsure whether he will ever be able to work with man’s best friend again.
“I realized in a really objective way that all the other issues that I was dealing with in my life six months ago are not that important to what I have to go through now and the challenges I have to deal with. “I can now see ‘into the future,'” she said. W.S.F.A..
Despite her injury, she is trying to stay positive and is looking forward to getting a prosthetic arm.
“I’m going to continue to live my life to the fullest. It’s just a hand. What is this, 10% of my body? Losing my hand might be something that changes me. But that doesn’t mean it defines me in every way,” Wilson told the magazine.
Ms Wilson has been moved by the support she has received, calling it “incredible”.
“It’s support I never knew I was getting and it definitely meant a lot,” she told 15 News.
Wilson revealed that local restaurant Bohemian Bull will be donating a portion of the proceeds from an upcoming cornhole tournament to support her recovery efforts.
