Who is Kelsey Salmon? Dog bites off birthday girl's eyelid during lash session
A girl from Atlanta, Georgia, reportedly had the worst experience while getting her eyelashes done for her birthday. Kelsey Salmon went to get her eyelashes done for her birthday and a long-planned holiday to Hawaii. However, fate has something else in store as she was reportedly attacked by a dog that ripped off her entire eyelid. Salmon then ended up in a hospital, where she had to undergo surgery.
According to reports, the 23-year-old did not get a slot with her usual lash technician, so she went to an alternative after finding them on Instagram. However, after her lashes were done, she was apparently attacked by the technician’s chihuahua. The sales development representative has described the ordeal in her viral TikTok videos, which she called “worst lash extension experience”.
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Salmon said, “It took place at the girl’s apartment, and this was the first time I’d ever met her. The living room was empty, aside from a lash bed in the middle of the room. I lay down to get started, and I could hear the dog barking in her room. This Chihuahua runs in and jumps up on the bed. I start petting him, everything’s fine. Eventually, she’s finished with the lashes and I sit up. The dog’s sitting on the floor, I look down at him and he’s just staring at me. Then, out of nowhere — it happened so fast that I didn’t have time to pull back — he jumped up, bit me in the face and broke my eyelid off.”
She continued that the tragedy took place so fast that initially, she did not understand what actually happened to her. “There was blood everywhere, and I was trying to catch the blood, saying, ‘What did he grab?’ My eyelid was on the floor, and the girl picked it up. I looked at myself in my front camera and that’s when I started freaking out. I’m so lucky he didn’t grab onto my actual eye because that could have been a thousand times worse. I was bawling my eyes out, she gave me a dirty blanket off the floor to stop my bleeding. She’s calling the ambulance; I’m calling my mum to meet me at the hospital. When I got to the hospital, I ended up waiting for like seven hours. They didn’t have any ocular plastic surgeons at this hospital,” she explained.
Salmon then went to chronicle her trauma. She stated, “My paramedics had wrapped up my eyelid in gauze and put it on ice. The nurse felt adamant that nothing could be done. I ended up leaving to go to another hospital at 8 p.m., and I didn’t go into surgery until 1 a.m. My mum sat right next to me the whole time; I don’t know how she did that. Feeling it was bad, but watching it would be worse, I feel like. I was in and out during the reattachment process. It felt like half an hour to me, but I was later told that the operation took two hours.”
The girl has also said that despite doctors’ initial belief that the eyelid won’t be recovered, it’s doing well. Salmon said, “They honestly didn’t think the eyelid was going to take, because none of the doctors or nurses I spoke to had seen a full eyelid come off. They were in uncharted territory. They were hopeful but the odds were against me. I now take antibiotic drops four times a day, and I also put on a prescription gel four times a day — just to keep it moist. At the moment, my eye is all stitched up with dissolvable stitches. It should open eventually. I had my surgery on May 29th and I had a check-up again on June 2nd. My surgeon and all the other doctors were shocked that it was even healing and that it had color. It shouldn’t have worked. They were very surprised and glad it worked.”
After documenting her recovery, Salmon has now alleged that she has not heard back from the lash technician who should ideally cover her medical bills, which could be around $20k-$30k. She also claimed that the unnamed technician has blocked her on Instagram. Salmon told TMZ that there are chances her family might sue the owner of the chihuahua because of whom she ended up in hospital.