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Woman Loses Arms, Feet After Bum Boost Injections
By The sun
Shock image reveals dodgy jabs truth
A mum of two has told how her quest for a bigger bottom left her a quadruple amputee – and 24 hours from death.
Apryl Michelle Brown had black-market silicone injections which turned out to be bathroom sealant.
It left her in agony and led to her losing her hands and feet, as well as her buttocks.
The 46-year-old former hairdresser blames “vanity” and wants to warn others of the terrible dangers of such illegal treatments.
Apryl said: “I’ve paid a terrible price for vanity and I’ll pay for the rest of my life. But I blame no one but myself.
Teased as a child about her “pancake” bum, Apryl vowed to buy a shapelier one when she was older.
She said: “I didn’t know if I wanted mine to look like Janet Jackson’s or J-Lo’s.
“I didn’t even know how you could do it. I just wanted a new, bigger bottom.”
The moment that changed her life came in 2004, when two women walked into her successful beauty salon to get their hair done.
One of them ran “pumping parties” — where unqualified practitioners inject illegal silicone into “patients” at their home.
Apryl, from Los Angeles, said: “One of the women told me how she had given bottom injections to the friend who was with her.
“I remember thinking it was a miracle she’d walked into my life. Her friend showed me the work she’d had done and it looked great.
“In a split second I made the decision that I was going to go to this woman and let her inject silicone into my behind.”
That decision nearly killed her. Apryl paid the woman, who had no medical background, around £650 for two lots of injections. Doctors later discovered the substance used was industrial-grade silicone.
Apryl admitted: “I didn’t do any research. A combination of naivety, misplaced trust and insecurity led me to take this disastrous decision.”
Over the next two years the area where she’d been injected became hard and the skin blackened.
Apryl, mum to daughters Danye, 22 and Courtney, 21, said: “Within a few months of the second injection my buttocks began to harden. I knew something wasn’t right. But shame stopped me seeking medical help. As time went on it got worse as the skin blackened. I developed hard lumps. Then the searing pain started. I had to tell my doctor what I did. I was so ashamed.”
Apryl spent the next four years in constant pain. Two surgeons told her it was too dangerous to remove the silicone.
In February 2011 a surgeon operated unsuccessfully. Apryl developed a hole in her buttocks — thought to be the trigger for an infection that in June was nearly fatal.
Doctors put her in an induced coma for two months while performing 27 surgeries — starting with amputating her buttocks — and doing extensive skin grafts.
She said: “They saved me but gangrene set into my hands and feet. I was brought out of sedation shortly before I became a quadruple amputee.”
“I was six months in hospital. By the time I was discharged I was determined to turn this terrible thing into something positive.
“I decided to do a triathlon. I told myself if I could achieve that I could do anything.
“I took my first steps again by the end of 2011. I built up to training six days a week, learning to walk, cycle then swim again using my residual limbs.
“I’d be crying in pain but I’d push through it. And six weeks ago I did it — completing a three-mile walk, ten-mile cycle and a 150-metre swim.
She added: “I haven’t sued or sought compensation. I just want to move on. There are things I miss dearly — I’ll never be able to do my girls’ hair or feel sand between my toes.
“But I believe I survived to share my story.
“I want to warn others of the dangers of black-market surgery. We were born whole, perfect and complete.
“My greatest message is we have to learn to love and accept ourselves for who we are.”- Sun
Posted by
madamy
May 28, 2013 at 10:44 am
am wonderfully and fearfully made. praise be to GOD
Zambian
May 28, 2013 at 3:55 pm
You mean cheerfully made?
TC
May 28, 2013 at 10:44 am
Please women, be happy with what God has given you! Every woman is beautiful in their own right.
mimi
May 28, 2013 at 11:11 am
poor woman, u went thru all this bcoz u were not proud of how God created u. Thank God u lived to share this sad experience. Thanx for reaching out to many pipo.
Air Mukwai_
May 28, 2013 at 11:28 am
A lesson to Kamwala bums and hips booster.
Mrs Ngoma
May 28, 2013 at 3:52 pm
Hahahahahahah you have cracked me….yes near down town ka ati mukwala wa mahip mukwala ochepesa pa mala.
Umupandapwiti
May 28, 2013 at 11:53 am
I want to have two KG testicles, anyone with silicon out there???
mk
May 28, 2013 at 12:42 pm
thats the wage
laugh today
May 28, 2013 at 12:43 pm
Iwe mupwiti, you thing this is funny? Careful what you wish for! There will be no all fitting size dress to concealthem.
kalulete
May 28, 2013 at 3:08 pm
ARCHIVE STORY
Fatty boom boom
May 28, 2013 at 3:27 pm
PLIZ BA TUMFWEKO BRING US LATEST NEWS, NOT VIMA RECYCLED NEWS!!!!!! WE ARE NOT AS FORGETFUL AS YOU MIGHT THINK WE ARE, IMPROVE !!!!!!!
Zazo
May 28, 2013 at 3:46 pm
Am tired of old stories. You are becoming boring tumfweko.
Lisa
May 28, 2013 at 3:54 pm
umwana ekalisha lilya anyaa! girls learn something frm this especially u who swallow pills to breach yo skins
“We were born whole, perfect and complete, learn to love and accept yourselves for who you are.” black is beautiful!
”
yaffe
May 28, 2013 at 4:19 pm
This is a recycled story
Mara
May 28, 2013 at 4:47 pm
We are wonderfully made by God. Let’s appreciate who we are. Too bad mama……
bushman
May 28, 2013 at 6:28 pm
Old story
orgarsm
May 28, 2013 at 9:58 pm
chakale chistori
SK
May 28, 2013 at 11:35 pm
Are we recycling stories now? That’s cheating the public!
sad face
May 29, 2013 at 10:02 am
S0o0…. Sad!!!!! Hope zambian women could read this!!!! Coz we in troulble with their atificial… Hips,b00ty,b00b and even face!!!! Yellow face black legs!!!!
oviziba
May 30, 2013 at 9:42 am
Whether the story is old but let others learn one or two things.Artificial beauty is too much for our ladies imagine nothing is real for them nowadays. eye lashes, hair complexion hips fyonse fyakupangafye mwakulafwa nokulemana. others insert mankwala yakuchefya thing…..
Wellington Mfula
June 7, 2013 at 10:46 am
Stay natural, Mukalaputuka amolu.
Edward Banda
June 13, 2013 at 3:47 pm
You got what you wanted as you were competing with the CREATOR.Simumvela amambala what are himps for?