“I know I can’t ever have my hand back, but I hope to God my vision returns:” A gardener was just going about his job when a leftover Fourth of July firework exploded in his hand in Torrance, leaving him with life-altering injuries.
Neighbors, on the phone with 911, suggested a tourniquet. Lucas wrapped a strap around Mayoral’s arm and held it there until firefighters arrived.
“It could have killed Hector and it could have killed one of the kids in the neighborhood, you know?” Lucas said about the firework. Mayoral said he often brings his nephew along with him, since he’s on vacation, and has him pick up some of the trash. Thankfully, the boy wasn’t with him that day. If he had been, Mayoral fears the firework indeed could have killed him.
Mayoral is still recovering in the aftermath of the blast. He has searing pain on his left hand. He holds back tears describing how his 5-year-old niece helps to feed him, since he still can’t do it himself. He can’t see out of one eye, and vision in the other is blurry.In addition to being a gardener, Mayoral also over the last two years opened up a mobile pizza business. He’s now afraid he won’t be able to get back to work.“I have to pay everything.
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