Shelley Puchalsky, 39, is fighting to regain her life after a devastating freak accident with her shih tzu Chloe.
A freak accident left a Delaware woman with portions of her face “falling off” after taking a nasty spill while on a jog with her dog.
“I had to get [40] stitches, and they became infected and wouldn’t heal. I went to a doctor who said he could help me, so he did a skin graft over my nose and restitched my forehead,” Puchalsky told Kennedy News and Media. Shelley Puchalsky, who tripped over her dog while out jogging and landed on her nose, was left unable to leave the house for two years — after the wound became infected and half her face “fell off.”Kennedy News and Media
“There was a spot on my nose with no skin on it,” Puchalsky added. “The skin on my forehead was all the way gone, [then] it started going up into my scalp and moving [my] hair — just chunks of skin and hair.” Since moving to Florida in November 2022, Puchalsky, now pursuing a Ph.D. in education, has been under the care of a specialist as shefor a reconstructive procedure that would help mitigate the years of damage and deterioration.