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A woman from South Carolina, in the US, is recovering after she said her hand was amputated after it was badly burnt by her hair dryer. Mary Wilson, of James Island, told WCIV she passed out while drying her hair at her home on February 7. “The way I on top of the dryer, like, it was under me, and I was in a weird, contorted placement and the dryer was still running,” she said, adding that she believes she was shocked by the dryer.
“The biggest thing is not being able to do the simple things I want to do, or things take so much longer,” Wilson said of her life post-amputation. She said she believes blow dryers should have automatic shut-offs, similar to coffee machines and other hot tools. “You see it with hair straighteners and flat irons — they do have that ceramic plate that once it gets to a certain temperature, it turns off,” she said. “If it did, then maybe my injuries wouldn’t have been so bad.
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