Everyone has been warned not to put their feet on the dashboard by a woman who lost her entire forehead in a car accident.
When black ice caused her boyfriend’s Jeep to slip and crash into a wall at 120 mph in 2007, Gráinne Kealy was seated in the passenger seat with her feet on the dashboard, according to the Sun.
Even though the airbags went off when she hit anything, the force of inflation propelled her feet violently toward her face, forcing her knees to hit it with a lot of power and hurt her a lot.
In an interview with Fabulous, Gráinne said, “I broke every bone in my face.”
Doctors had to take off my forehead when I was brought to the hospital. There was nothing on my forehead. My head sank in, and I looked a little weird.
Gráinne had a CSF fluid leak from her head and many broken bones in her face. She needed to see a neurosurgeon for therapy.
They informed me that I had pushed my face in and up and that they would have to take it all out and put it back together, she said.
After her operation went well, Grainne had problems a year later that needed more medical care.
She didn’t get her custom-made “new forehead” created out of Italian ceramic until 2009.
Gráinne has finished her plastic surgery treatments and says that her physicians are happy with how far she has come since the crash that changed her life more than ten years ago.
The Mirror says that she is still dealing with the long-term ramifications of the traumatic brain damage she got.
While I’m talking, I always forget words. Gráinne said this could happen to her 20 times a day.
When a lot of people are chatting around me, I get headaches, and sometimes I have trouble staying focused.
Gráinne has become an advocate since the disaster, using her terrible experience to warn others about how dangerous it is to put your feet on the dashboard while driving.
In a Facebook post where she told her tale again, she said, “A few years ago, I sent out an email in the hopes of stopping anyone from having to go through what I have had to go through.”
Unfortunately, I am aware that not enough people have heard the message. My realization that I need to do more grows as I talk to more people about what happened to me. Thus, kindly forward it.
She posted pictures of her injuries in the post.
Gráinne feels sad that stars post pictures on social media of themselves with their feet up while in the passenger seat.
Gráinne posted pictures on Facebook of celebrities including Selena Gomez, Kim Kardashian, and Hailey Baldwin with their feet close to the windshield while they were being driven.
She told Sky News that she was worried about celebrities releasing these kinds of pictures to “millions and millions of people.”
She said, “I can’t compete with that, but I still feel like I have to try.”
This breaks my heart to think of how many millions of people have seen these celebrities with their feet on the…
Posted by Gráinne Kealy on Sunday, March 31, 2019
Gráinne said, “It breaks my heart to think of anyone having to go through what my family and I have been through.” So be it if I have to share my narrative and my terrifying pictures.