After what happened to her in September in Salt Lake City, Utah, in the United States, former animal lover Marie Fast, now 48 years old, is scared of all animals.
When Marie stooped down to touch the animal, she was in the middle of a conversation with the dog’s owner, who was cutting the hedges in the vicinity.
It pounced on her without giving any prior notice, burying its fangs into her face, and entirely tearing off her top lip in the process of the assault.
Janitor Marie was transported to the hospital in an emergency and had reconstructive surgery as soon as she arrived there.
Kasja Sparks, the victim’s sister, said that her lip is being reconstructed by doctors, but that “there isn’t much left of it.”
It has punctured her top lip all the way through, and it has left wounds all over her face. “From the looks of it, the dog must have lunged at her and grabbed her lip,” said Kasja, who is 45 years old.
“It was nothing but a bloody mess, and it appeared to be ground meat,” she said. She will always have marks on her body.
She was in such much agony for many days that she was unable to eat or drink at that time.
“For the past three weeks, she had been sucking on a straw while she drank her soup.”
Marie, who has autism, is believed to be cautious around animals, according to Kasja.
“The guy told her the dog’s name, so she got down to its level, and that’s when the dog just lunged and attacked her,” she claimed. “She got down to its level because the guy told her the dog’s name.”
“It tore off her upper lip, and the guy snatched up his dog and ran away.” Marie had fallen on the ground and was sobbing and wailing.
According to Kasja, Marie has not been successful in identifying the dog, but she has characterized it as being “big and brown.”
She has had two procedures, but she will need another surgery in the future, which will cost her family thousands of dollars.
It has been said that Marie does not experience pain in the same way that other people do. As well as Kasja.
‘She has a high pain tolerance since she doesn’t recognize the sensation as pain, thus for her to say “it’s painful” it must have truly hurt for her to say that.
They attempted to pull the skin that is above the lip down, but it is definitely a different color.
They are attempting to recreate what a lip might seem like in their minds.
Marie is often optimistic and enthusiastic, but after the tragic incident, she has been feeling down in the dumps.
“She used to have a soft spot in her heart for animals, but now she won’t even come close to them,” said Kasja.
Because she has such severe anxiety when she is around dogs, she has avoided being in their company ever since. When she encounters one, she gets a series of little panic episodes.