A horrific campfire accident left a Georgia mother with burns over 40 percent of her body. (GoFundMe)
Posted on 07/14/2017 3:55:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A woman who survived being severely burned in a campfire accident is talking about about what happened that day, and the obstacles she’s had to overcome since as she rebuilds her life.
Courtney Waldon, 27, of Tallapoosa, Georgia, says she was sitting by a campfire, cooking last September when her husband lit the fire.
Some of the gas got on her body, then she was engulfed in flames. “I thought I was dying,” she told People Magazine.
A horrific campfire accident left a Georgia mother with burns over 40 percent of her body. (GoFundMe) Waldon was in an induced coma for a month, and finally came home after 51 days; she was left with fourth-degree and third-degree burns.
“It was horrible, it was the worst feeling I’ve ever felt,” Waldon told Barcroft. “But it’s made me stronger today.”
Waldon, who is mother to a 5-year-old daughter, would face another obstacle shortly after she was released from the hospital – she told People her husband left her two weeks after she returned home.
She says her daughter is the reason she is still living, and is hoping her story helps others.
“I shouldn’t be here but I am,” she told People. “I know that there are people out there who have it worse than I do. I’ve always been a believer that everything happens for a reason and I still believe that.”
According to a GoFundMe page set up in Waldon’s name, she has undergone seven surgeries and has another skin graft surgery scheduled for January.
The page says she may never return to work due to her injuries. A group of people are trying to build a home for her and her little girl, and are hoping to raise money through the Go Fund Me page.
So far, over $92,000 has been raised.
Sounds like attempted murder to me...
She’s better off without him.
Why do these gifs end so early?
BINGO that....
Goes to intent vs. IQ....
That poor girl. She was very pretty too. She is very strong because she has a lot of reasons to not be.
Bless her.
OMG! How wacky can gasoline be?!? I learned my lesson trying to start a campfire with gasoline that you better stand back when you throw the match or you’re gonna get your eyebrows singed. Who knew it could stay low and creep!
I think he dropped the camera. Do you see that wimpy jump? You’re supposed to put some momentum behind it.
Wow what a cautionary tale.
Darwin Award winner caught on video.
A horrific campfire accident left a Georgia mother with burns over 40 percent of her body. (GoFundMe)
You can’t buy a good gas can anymore because of people suing the manufacturers out of business and the moronic fill spouts we are forced to buy now.
Prayers for her.
Oh yeah
Wait until you try using starting fluid (ether). I sprayed a dead bat in a clump of grass with it in my yute. Couldn’t get a flicked match on it, so hit it with lighter. I know the approximate speed of though from that experiment because I clearly thought “that’s an overpressure dome” right before it hit me.
Eyebrows and lashes grow back :-)
I’m wondering how “accidental” this really was.
Lesson learned, no doubt.
IDIOT!!!!!
So true dat.
I have ~ 24 Blitz plastic 5 gal “cans”. Almost all came with the “old” nozzles. Work great.
The last one came with the “EPA safety” nozzle.
I have never spilled so much gas at one time in my life...
Fortunately Walmart still had replacement nozzles of the old style.
Blitz was sued out of buzness.
Urinalism today...
And not be drunk (guessing)
Yeah, the EPA plastic gas jugs in the sun for any time swell like Rosie O at buffet like they may explode.
The nozzle on mine finally broke and works fine now.
Aha, realization!
I remember trying to light a camp fire once with no
matches but a can of butane lighter gas.
Sprayed for a few seconds and touched it off and
there was the most beautiful expanding fireball about
three feet in diameter...eyebrows etc. Just lucky.
We were on the Appalachian trail and several miles
from the trail head.
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