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<\/p>\nToday Show’s Taylor Haynes has detailed the devastating fallout she has experienced after her hand was crushed by a crab during a live broadcast nearly two months ago.<\/p>\n
The Nine weather star sat down with Stellar’s Something To Talk About podcast this week to reveal that she is currently undergoing rehabilitation to restore feeling in her finger after a live television cross at Sydney Fish Market went horribly wrong.<\/p>\n
The 23-year-old presenter was taking viewers on a tour of the new and improved seafood destination in April when she did a piece to camera holding a giant crab, which unexpectedly grabbed her finger with its pincer and crushed it.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Now, Haynes has detailed what went wrong behind-the-scenes of the now-viral moment and the health battle she faces as a result.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“I have a thing called a neuroma,” she began, adding: “Because my finger was severely crushed by the crab, it has crushed all the nerves. I’ve lost feeling and sensation.”<\/p>\n
She went on to reveal that she is doing rehab every week to get movement, feeling and muscle memory back into the finger.<\/p>\n
“I’m seeing a hand surgeon next week to chat further on how we manage this, whether it will take six to 12 months, or we bite the [bullet] and get an operation to reconstruct the nerves.”<\/p>\n
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The TV star, while maintaining a calm exterior in the broadcast, was secretly panicking during the shock moment.<\/p>\n
“I just screamed and said, ‘Please, I don’t want to lose a finger’. It still shakes me talking about it.”<\/p>\n
According to Haynes, the animal handler could not free her hand from the pincer himself, so the cameraman stepped in and attempted to loosen its grip with large tongs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“We were getting everything to try to separate those claws. My cameraman went running and found these big tongs that were 30cm long that you [use to] pull crabs out of the tank. That finally separated the crab from my finger,” Haynes said.<\/p>\n
A few days after the on-air incident, Haynes revealed that justice was “served\u201d, telling co-hosts Lizzie Pearl and Michael Atkinson that she had enacted her revenge by eating the crab that had taken a bite of her finger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cJustice is being served this morning, Australia,\u201d Haynes said from the Sydney Royal Easter Show.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019d like to introduce to you my breakfast, if not my revenge, do you recognise this bad boy in front of me? Because I definitely do.<\/p>\n
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\u201cWe are being reunited under very different circumstances this morning \u2026 it had a great crack at me the other day, so I thought I\u2019d have the last fight.\u201d<\/p>\n
Haynes then went on to thank Today Show viewers for the support she received in the wake of the nasty on-air bite.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today Show’s Taylor Haynes has detailed the devastating fallout she has experienced after her hand was crushed by…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":693104,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,287600,134,208777,3899,20975,287601,45809],"class_list":["post-693103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-crab","tag-entertainment","tag-health-battle","tag-injury","tag-nine","tag-taylor-haynes","tag-today-show"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693103"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693103\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/693104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}