I FORGOT THE PLUG WAS ON
May 13, 2022
4 minutes
BY JANA VAN DER MERWE
SHE looks sadly at her mutilated hands, which once created enchanting works of art and embellished the clothes she wore.
Now Vanessa Grimbeek of Henties Bay in Namibia has only three fingers on her right hand. “My thumb and forefinger have been amputated,” the 16-year-old says. “The tip of my little finger was also cut off.”
She points to the splint bandage on her left hand. “And I have very little function in this hand,” she says. The pinky and tips of her ring and middle finger on her left hand also had to be amputated.
Vanessa’s life changed in a blinding flash 10 months ago when she was electrocuted in a freak accident – and she now wants her story
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