\u201cEK leef \u2019n lewe van dankbaarheid,\u201d s\u00ea \u2019n emosionele Elmi Brink, honde-aanval slagoffer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Di\u00e9 fyngeboude en saggeaarde eienares van Body Stress Release (BSR) in Jeffreysbaai moes honderde steke kry nadat twee pitboele haar op Maandag, 6 Augustus omstreeks 10:30 in Kabeljousstraat aangeval het. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Die honde het haar arms verskeur en haar aan die kop gebyt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brink, wat vir \u2019n paar dae in die hospitaal was, moes verskeie operasies ondergaan om die ligamente en spiere in haar regterarm te heg. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDaar was aanvanklik gevrees dat ek die gevoel in twee van my vingers sal verloor, maar dit was gelukkig ongegrond,\u201d s\u00ea Brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Brink, een van vier mense wat beseer is toe die twee honde uit hul erf gekom het, vertel: \u201cEk en BSR-kli\u00ebnt Elmarie Malan, het \u2019n vreeslike geskreeu gehoor en dadelik besef hier is moeilikheid: \u2019n bejaarde vrou, Ina Jonker, is deur twee pitboele aangeval. Haar bebloede miniatuur Yorkshire Terrier het erg bebloed langs haar gel\u00ea, terwyl haar ander miniatuur Yorkshire Terrier beangs rondhardloop het.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Sonder om te huiwer, het die twee vroue nadergehardloop om te help. \u201cDit was \u00f2f iemand se lewe probeer red, \u00f2f kyk hoe sy verskeur word,\u201d s\u00ea Brink.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cEk het die een hond natgegooi \u2013 iets wat ek by my honde-afrigter geleer het. Hy het een tree agteruit gegee, en toe vir my gekom. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
\u201cDie honde het my aan die regterarm gegryp en begin ruk . . . en ruk . . . sonder ophou. In \u2019n later stadium het een van die honde my regterarm gelos en my van agter bestorm en my linkerarm gegryp. Saam was hulle te sterk vir my en het my op die gras neerge-trek.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDit was die eerste keer wat my vegterslus gewyk het. Ek het gevoel dat ek maar kan opgee; hulle het gewen.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Toe tree Evan Drennan, \u2019n buurman, tot die stryd toe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDie honde het my gelos en hom binne sekondes platgetrek. Dit het soos \u2019n slagveld gelyk: ek, Jonker en Drennan het bebloed op die gras gel\u00ea.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nie gereed om moed op te gee nie, het Brink weereens ingestorm en die honde van Drennan probeer verwilder \u2013 met net een gedagte: hulle kan hom nie verskeur nie. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Hulle het Brink weer aangeval.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Volgens Brink kon sy uit die hoek van haar oog sien nog twee mans aangehardloop kom; een gewapen met \u2019n stok.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Duiselig en aan die einde van haar kragte, het sy voetjie-vir-voetjie skuiling agter die ho\u00eb heining van die huis langs haar erf gaan soek.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Terwyl sy daar in erge pyn gel\u00ea het, het een van die honde probeer inkom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk kon vaagweg hoor hoe mense probeer om die honde weg te jaag,\u201d s\u00ea sy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Drennan se vrou, Margaret, wie se Duitse Herdershond weke vantevore deur dieselfde twee pitboele aangeval is, het Brink en haar man dokter toe gevat. Brink is vandaar per ambulans na Greenacres Hospitaal in Port Elizabeth geneem. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Brink s\u00ea haar regterarm is erg beskadig. \u201cDiep stukke vleis is uitgeskeur en plek-plek kon mens die been sien. Van die ligamente en spiere is ook beskadig. My linkerarm is verder beskadig en ek moes verskeie steke aan die linkerkant van my kop en agter my linkeroor kry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cDaar is ook minder ernstige bytplekke aan my skouers, rug en bo-arms, asook skrape aan my ore, nek en linkerenkel.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cAl my wonde genees baie goed,\u201d s\u00ea Brink. \u201cDit behoort nagenoeg ses tot agt weke te neem voor ek weer albei my arms en regterhand kan gebruik. Intussen sal \u2019n gekwalifi-seerde BSR-praktisyn my praktyk tydelik oorneem.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cEk kry nog fisioterapie en berading, maar ek is dankbaar dat ek leef. Ek is ook oneindig dankbaar vir al die ontferming en liefde van so baie mense, bekend en onbekend, na die aanval.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Die eienaar van die pitboele het dieselfde dag die twee honde aan die Humansdorp Die-rebeskermingsvereniging (DBV) oorgeteken. 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