A woman from Tennessee suffered horrible fourth grade burns after an electronic cigarette exploded on her face.
Cherylee Parker had only vaping that day after deciding to leave the cigarettes after almost four decades.
While reached the fridge to grab something, the cranberry flavor device that was suddenly grabbing «caused» and put his hair to his flame elbow.
In seconds, the fire wrapped its head, clothes and carpet. Parker tried to go out with water, but the bathtub took ‘forever’ to fill.
Parker, now 49, said: «At that time I shouted:» God, please take me. I’m ready, I can’t do this. «
He entered the Classic ‘Stop, Drop and Roll’ technique that he remembered to have been taught at school while the flames filled their apartment.
This helped her turn off the flames and call 911, but when the paramedics arrived, she had stopped breathing for several minutes.
Parker suffered third and fourth grade burns in more than half of his body, which destroyed the muscles and bones, as well as his nervous finals. His left ear and chest were also partially burned.
Cherylee Parker (in the photo here before her wounds) suffered burns to 55 percent of her body after her vape exploded
Even after being discharged from the hospital, Parker (in the photo here) had to learn how to walk, while burns damaged their muscles
«I had nothing less than third grade burns,» he said.
Parker spent his first week at the hospital staggering between life and death, since the burns had left her prone to infections because the damaged skin cannot keep the pollutants out.
The injuries had also exhausted their liquid body, leaving it at risk of severe dehydration.
She said: «(He felt) I spent a week dying again and again, they call him surrounding the drain.»
In the course of three months, it underwent 15 operations to repair the damages of burns, which affected 55 percent of its body.
These included leather grafts, which involve having healthy skin pieces and joining them to the burned areas.
‘It was the worst pain. No one realizes unless you are a burning survivor, «he said. Parker estimates that treatments cost around $ 2 million before insurance.
Parker’s injuries were so serious parts of his burnt ear and chest. She is photographed above in the hospital
The previous images show several of Parker’s most serious injuries, which took 15 surgeries and months of hospitalization to heal. On the left is his arm and chest, part of which he burned. To the right is your leg
Once discharged in February 2023, he had to learn how to walk again, since the burns had damaged their muscles.
It is not clear that it caused exactly that Parker’s electronic cigarette exploded, but she believes that it simply worked badly.
Experts say that if the device feels hot to the touch or has strange sounds or odors that leave it, it can be a sign that the battery could work badly.
Since then, Parker has stopped vaping and now warns others to stop immediately, they fall and surround ‘when they set fire.
The old method, widely taught in the schools of the United States, implies stopping and staying still, falling to the floor and rolling on the ground until the flames can be extinguished.
Parker now warns against the hidden dangers of vaping and suggests that the method of ‘stopping, releaseing and shooting’ saved his life
Parker said: ‘If you are ever unfortunately in the same position as me, my advice is to stop, fall and roll immediately, that should be your number one goal.
«Because at that time there is the opportunity to save itself, that is the only thing that will get the flames.»
About six percent of American adults, around 17 million, vapes, according to the latest CDC data.
And the National Health Institutes (NIH) estimates that there are 1,000 electronic cigarettes lesions due to explosions and burns per year.
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