A six-year-old girl from Chesterville, Maine, will never be able to smile again after a horrific attack by a pit bull resulted in significant facial injuries.
On Saturday, February 18, Lily Norton was rushed to a hospital in Boston for emergency surgery following a violent dog attack. According to a GoFundMe website set up in her honor, she still has two more procedures to go through.
The six-year-old went through a 12-hour surgery that required over 1,000 stitches from just behind her eyes to above her throat.
A family friend who started the fundraising page for the little girl, told a local source that the child’s doctor told her the little girl would never be able to smile again since the attack had caused substantial muscular damage to her face.
Doctors will keep the girl in intensive care for at least ten days and sedated for a week to prevent her from scratching her face throughout the healing process.
While Norton is sedated, she will breathe through a tube, according to her mother, Dorothy Norton.
Despite the sedation and breathing tube, the girl’s mother stated that her daughter was doing as well as could be expected.
Norton was visiting a friend’s house when she was attacked. The youngster and her friend were having a playdate, and her friend’s mother was dog-sitting the pit bull.
The mother had left the girls to play cards in the kitchen when she heard shouting. Norton’s friend discovered the pit bull attacking the six-year-old and immediately called to her mother for assistance.
Norton was airlifted to Boston Children’s Hospital for emergency surgery and care.
The fundraiser has already raised more than $55,000.