It’s hard to get over traumatic events – things like a dog biting a hole in your face, for instance. That’s exactly what happened to Crystal Coombs when she was 9 years old, according to People.
It bit an actual hole, in her face.
“It was open for a while. Like how the outside of Freddie Kruger’s face looks, with the burn? That’s what the inside looked like.”
That was clearly a horrible experience for a 9-year-old child, but her saga doesn’t end there.
The video below explains a bit more about why Coombs is seeking help from Botched, a reality TV series that connects people to doctors who help them after a past botched surgery.
Coombs reveals that she had a hole in her face for a good while before she eventually sought help. Though her doctor fixed her wound, unfortunately, there were some complications to the surgery that her doctor didn’t warn her about. She says,
“He suggested the skin graft, [and to] take it from the groin. They did the surgery, and then the hair started growing.”
Coombs has been growing pubic hair on her face since that surgery. And, in fact, the show’s Dr. Terry Dubrow told her that it’s rare for a doctor to grab a patch of skin from the groin in order to do this type of surgery, for this exact reason.
“They could’ve done the back, the abdomen. You obviously wouldn’t do the armpits.”
Typically, doctors do try and match skin as well as possible before a graft, but that appears not to have been a concern this time,
The show’s doctors did say that – hair aside – Coombs’ original surgeon did a good job with the surgery, and that they’d have to be careful with her next corrective surgery. It looks like Coombs will be fine soon enough.
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