A woman from South Carolina, in the US, is recovering after she said her hand was amputated after it was badly burnt by her hair dryer.
Mary Wilson, of James Island, told WCIV she passed out while drying her hair at her home on February 7.
“The way I (fell) on top of the dryer, like, it was under me, and I was in a weird, contorted placement and the dryer was still running,” she said, adding that she believes she was shocked by the dryer.
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The dryer was scorching Wilson’s skin when her partner found her.
“She’s telling me, ‘Your hand, your hand,’” Wilson recalled.
“I look at my hand. I don’t even register that’s a part of me. It doesn’t even look recognisable.”
Wilson said she was rushed to the hospital. Due to the burn and nerve damage, the decision was made to amputate her left hand.
“The biggest thing is not being able to do the simple things I want to do, or things take so much longer,” Wilson said of her life post-amputation.
She said she believes blow dryers should have automatic shut-offs, similar to coffee machines and other hot tools.
“You see it with hair straighteners and flat irons — they do have that ceramic plate that once it gets to a certain temperature, it turns off,” she said. “If it did, then maybe my injuries wouldn’t have been so bad.”
Wilson said the support — both financially and emotionally — she has been receiving has been “incredible.”
“It’s support that I never even knew that I had, and it definitely meant a lot,” she said, adding that James Island restaurant Bohemian Bull plans to set aside some of the proceeds of an upcoming corn hole tournament for her.
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