A mother of three from South Carolina who lost both hands to a pit bull herd has to face another round of rashes as she was told the nature of her injuries was so severe that she could not wear prostheses. .
Kyleen Waltman, 38, was killed by three pit bulls last month while walking to her mother’s house on rural Honea Path, about 80 miles northwest of Columbia. She has since undergone more than 10 surgeries and lost both her arms.
Amy Wynne’s sister, 41, wrote in a Wednesday post on GoFundMe how the family had hoped a prosthesis could be placed on her right arm, but doctors now said there was simply not enough tissue or bone to attach. . As a result, they had to remove more of the bone, which means that Waltman can no longer have prostheses.
“We thought that her right shoulder would be good and they were able to place it with a prosthesis, well yesterday they found an infection in the bone and they had to remove more of the bone. So now she will not be able to have a normal prosthesis on any shoulder “, Wynne wrote in the devastating post in which she also revealed how her sister’s body is still fighting an infection in her leg.
Although Amy Wynne’s sister, 41, wrote in a GoFundMe update on Monday that Waltman has lost so much bone and tissue, she will no longer be able to wear prosthetic arms.
“Her left leg does not only make her but also the doctors. “The infection in her is the same infection she had all over her body, but for some reason the infection in her leg can not stop spreading.”
Wynne explained how the family would treat the dog owner in court for the first time since the attack. Justin Minor (pictured) was arrested and charged with three counts of possession of a dangerous animal that attacked and injured a human. His pit bulls have been euthanized after the attack
Earlier this month, doctors tried to explain to her how she had lost both her arms, but she suffered so much that she was sedated again.
Wynne now says the news has been spread with her sister “fully aware” of what has happened.
“Doctors told Kyleen once again about her hands and the greater damage the dogs had done. He is now fully aware of the situation. There is still a long way to go. “She has survived this for a reason,” Wynne added optimistically.
Wynne also explained how the family would face Moore in court on Thursday for the first time since the attack.
“We are going to court and here the judge will tell him (the dog owner) what all his charges are and the consequences of his actions. So I beg you all to pray for my mom when she sees him face to face for the first time after the accident, so that everything goes accordingly “.
Two days after the March attack, dog owner Justin Minor was arrested and charged with three counts of possession of a dangerous animal that attacked and injured a human, breach of rabies control and a dangerous animal not allowed outside the premises unless restricted. according to The State.
He was released on $ 15,000 bail last month, but could face up to $ 5,000 or up to three years in prison.
Minor pictured at bail hearing last month before being released on $ 15,000 bail
On Tuesday, Watlman, pictured, underwent surgery on her left leg, which Wynne said was still “for amputation” if she did not begin to heal properly.
On Sunday, Wynne said her sister kept asking her mother to hold her hand.
She will ask our mom to hold her hand and mom will say “I am” and Kyleen will say “OK”. “It’s sad to see her like that.”
Regardless, Wynne wrote, Kyleen is in “high spirits.”
“Kyleen is a very ant who wants to leave and wants to drink Dr. “Pepper her and get out of bed,” Wynne wrote.
As of Thursday, the Waltman fundraiser has raised $ 225,000 from more than 4,700 donations.
In her last battle, her doctors performed a tracheostomy, which means that a hole was cut in her throat and a tube was inserted to help her breathe. They also had to put a drain in her left lung to help with the fluid.
“Here we are trying to figure out how to stop her from having negative thoughts about her life. I understand that for 38 years he has hands and now he does not have, how he thinks. He is still fighting. “Prayers have an effect and are slowly healing,” Wynne wrote.
Tanya Gilmer, Waltman’s best friend, told WGN Radio that the attack took place as she was walking from her friend’s house to her mother’s property.
“As far as I know, the dogs just jumped on her and you can really see on the road if you go down to where the dog fought, trying to fight them,” Gilmer said.
The dogs were seized by Abbeville County Animal Control and Abbeville County Sheriff’s office before being euthanized and sent for testing.
Avery Presley, a local farmer who drove his tractor to feed his cows on the road, saw Waltman being attacked in a ditch and managed to scare the dogs by firing his gun into the air, police said.
Amy Wynne provides regular updates on a GoFundMe page that she has started raising medical funds. As of Tuesday, more than $ 212,000 has been donated
“I’m not a hero,” Presley told the Greenwood Index Journal. “I still feel guilty that I did not get there earlier. “I always carry a gun for safety.”
Waltman’s GoFundMe page states “If it were not [the passerby]”My sister would not be here,” said Waltman’s other sister, Shenna Green. “Until then, they could not even say who she was.”
“She did not deserve it. He was a good man. She was helping everyone … She just found out that she is a grandmother [and]”… he can not even hold his grandmother and that will be disastrous.”
Gilmer told the local radio station that the dogs “tore quite a bit of meat from it [Waltman’s] hands “, and that the woman now has” a hole in the back of her head “.
On the Minor property, there is a sign “Beware of the dog” on the Minor property
“I am just shocked by this. “Her photos broke my heart, but regardless of that, she is still the same beautiful Kyleen to me,” said Gilmer, who has been friends with Waltman for three decades.
“She will always be the same beautiful Kyleen to me.”
Gilmer said Waltman, who is also the grandmother of a child, will be hospitalized for at least three to four months and will have a long recovery period.
“She is alive. She is a fighter. He will fight with it. I know her. He will fight it. ”
Benjamin Alewine, Minor’s neighbor and cousin, saw Waltman lying in the ditch after she was attacked. She told the Greenwood Index Journal that the “hole” in the back of her head was about the size of a cup of coffee.
“I have never seen a dog do this to anyone,” he said. “This is the most horrible spectacle I have ever seen, for a dog attack.”
“It’s hard to forget. I asked her what her name was and she could not even move her lips “.
He had known Waltman for 25 years, but could not recognize her until MPs came on stage and took her ID out of her pocket.
Alewine said he did not know where Minor got the dogs, but said he was in the habit of adopting strays. A few days before the attack, he said, he was holding a PVC in his hand to protect the dogs as he walked down the street.
“If you do not have a stick in your hand, you will be bitten,” he said. “I’m afraid to walk on my property at night.”
He told the agency that his three-year-old Chihuahua had disappeared about three weeks ago – he wondered if Minor’s dogs had reached it.
There is a leash law on Honea Path, he said.
Kyleen Waltman, 38, had to take drugs after learning she lost both her arms
Local media outlets photographed “Watch out for dogs” signs around Minor’s property. Animal services said they had confiscated eight more dogs from the owner’s property during a 10-day quarantine due to unknown circumstances surrounding the attack.
Waltman’s family wants Minor to be held accountable for the attack that changed the victim’s life.
Waltman’s cousin Adonia Gymer told DailyMail.com she was “personally angry” about the attack.
“Justin Minor knew his dogs were vicious and let them run free,” he said on Saturday. “I have known Justin for years. He deliberately made these dogs. “People have been bitten in the past.”
“Kyleen is an affectionate, generous woman,” Gymer said. “She especially likes animals. “Nobody deserves it, but Kyleen does not deserve it.”
Benjamin Alewine (pictured), Minor’s neighbor and cousin, saw Waltman in the ditch after she was attacked. She told the Greenwood Index Journal that the “hole” in the back of her head was about the size of a cup of coffee. Kyleen worked with her mother at Lou & Perry’s restaurant, according to the Greenwood Index Journal. Her manager, Eric Von Jr. (pictured), said she had worked there since she was 17 or 18 and that her mother was fighting emotionally after the attack.
“It could have been prevented,” said sister Amy Wynne.
“If the dogs were locked up or if the dogs were chained, or if they were never there for a start, that would never have happened.”
Kyleen worked with her mother at Lou & Perry’s restaurant, according to the Greenwood Index Journal. Her manager, Eric Vaughn Jr., said she had worked there since she was 17 or 18.
“She is definitely a tough woman and I hope she can fight it,” she said. ‘I hate it. “All we can do is let the doctors do their best and let everything get in the way.”
He said Waltman’s mother, who visited the restaurant before traveling to Greenville to see her daughter at the hospital, was “taking it hard”.
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