After the Bite: Dog Bite Reconstruction Stories

Inside this volume

Fifty first-person accounts describe recovering from a dog bite to the face, told by the people bitten and by those beside them. Bites came from a gate left unlatched on a postal round, a street dog in Pune fed biscuits for a year, a farm dog guarding puppies, and in several stories the family's own dog. Writers include a welder whose nose was rebuilt in three steps, a nursing student with a tube in her eyelid, a veterinary technician, a dog trainer, a paramedic, parents of babies and schoolchildren, a sister who felt left out, and the owner of a dog that bit a little girl. They write from Manchester to Mumbai, Accra to Bogota. They describe flaps, skin grafts with a donor site that hurt more than the face, a tissue expander under a child's cheek, a piece of ear carried in ice, rabies injections, facial exercises for an uneven smile, a fourteen-month waiting list, and raising money for a boy's operation. Not every recovery was smooth: one clinic only covered the wound, stitches went bad within days, a farmer waited too long to go to hospital, and several writers describe nightmares, fear near dogs and stares that outlasted the stitches. One man stopped after two operations; another has kept his scar for sixty years.

Who it's for

For people recovering from a dog bite to the face or head, for parents of a bitten child, and for partners, siblings and dog owners trying to understand what comes next.

Format · Instant download · PDF & EPUB · Fifty first-person accounts · PDF: 233 pages

A collection of personal testimony, offered as companion reading — not medical advice.

• 50 single-author testimonies from real people
• A short, plain-language introduction to the topic
• Editor's note, contents page, and curated resource list
• Professional interior typesetting and an original cover

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