ATLANTA, Ga. (Atlanta News First) — A Cherokee County man suffered severe facial injuries while breaking up a fight between two family dogs.
Now he’s asking for help to pay for facial reconstructive surgery critical to his recovery.
Life changed in a split second when Dustin Low tried to break up a fight between two family pets.
“It was probably a matter of five minutes total action time, and then the rest was just trying to gather myself, my breath and control the bleeding,” Low said.
Life changed in a split second when Dustin Low tried to break up a fight between two family pets.(WANF)
His wife, Chelsea, recalls the night she looked at her husband and noticed his facial tissue had been badly damaged.
“He came downstairs and was like, ‘I need help with the pets.’ I’m like, ‘No, you need a hospital,’” Chelsea recalled.
Medical bills for the surgeries have been stacking up, and Low’s final surgery will help him return to a sense of normalcy.
“We need $12,310 just to get him on the operating table for the third surgery. They will not do the third surgery until we pay $12,310. That’s for the first two surgeries. The last surgery is $6,500,” Chelsea said.
“It will get rid of this piece, which is the rest of my forehead flap, and it will sew that back up,” Low said.
As Dustin and Chelsea pray for a miracle, they said they don’t hold anger toward the dogs and plan to keep them.
“It was a mistake. It was a freak accident. They didn’t want to hurt him,” Chelsea said.
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