Kyleen Waltman, mother of three from South Carolina who had both arms surgically remove after being brutally attacked by three pit bulls also lost her vocal cords in the terrible outbreak and has suffered 13 surgical procedures so far.
Kyleen was violently attacked on a walkway in Honea Path northwest of Columbia on March 21. Kyleen’s sister, Amy Wynne told that when she passed out, dogs were eating Kyleen alive.
Amy said that the dogs pulled her and they scalped her sister. Her skull was visible; they ripped her left eyelid and right cheek off and left a hole. Dogs ate the skin off her inner thigh and ate the flesh off her arms and torn them off.
Kyleen has received 109 staples in the front of her head and at least 90 on the back to close her wide injuries. She also was fitted with a long-lasting trachea tube in her gullet since microbes from the dogs’ mouths got into her esophagus. Kyleen has to voice by means of a voice-generator box after losing her vocal cords.
Doctors had to keep a colonoscopy bag and her appendix shut down and they put her on dialysis. Medics are hopeful to regrow the tissue for her colon. Fortunately, she has no brain damage.
Kyleen of late received the shocking news that she won’t be able to get prosthetic limbs due to the brutality of her injuries. Doctors understood that her right shoulder was going to be good and they can fit it with a prosthetic. But yesterday they found a contagion in the bone and had to take away more of the bone. Kyleen was so disappointed by her situation when she awoke from a coma that doctors decided to put her under calm again.
Kyleen’s sister said that she is having unimaginable pains. She is healing well physically but mentally she is not there. She knows but she still hasn’t really acknowledged that she doesn’t have arms. Her sister added that Kyleen is a strong woman, stronger than her sister ever thought and that she is a fighter.
Kyleen works as an attendant at Lou and Perry’s in Honea Path, has three children. She was discharged from the ICU on Saturday and moved to the Greenville Prisma Hospital in South Carolina.
Justin Minor, 36, the owner of the three dogs, is accused with three counts of possessing unsafe animals attacking a human, rabies defilement and permitting unsafe animals off his property uncontrolled.
Abbeville County sheriff’s investigator Lt. Jeffrey Hines has discovered that Minor’s dogs had also confronted someone else on Christmas Eve. He supposedly affirmed that Minor’s property was not properly fenced and his many dogs wandered without restrictions around the area.
Hines also affirmed that Minor, who has been free on a $15,000 bond, told the police that he had sought to euthanize his dogs after they killed his chickens but his wife thought they could be skilled.
Wynne conveyed her thankfulness to Avery Presley, the Good Samaritan who saved her sister from the dogs. Avery tried to get the dogs off of Kyleen and he fired a few gunshots in the air. Two of the dogs ran but one dog remained and kept attacking and that is when he had to kick the dog off and the dog ran.
Wynne said that Avery Presley saved her sister’s life, though they have not met face to face yet because of the investigation.
