OKMULGEE, Okla. - Janelle Scott faces years of therapy and adaptation as she begins her journey with prosthetics and regaining independence.
An Okmulgee woman who lost both her arms and legs in a dog attack is back home after three months in the hospital.
What happened
Janelle Scott, who goes by Nellie, was attacked by dogs in early September and had nearly a dozen surgeries that left her without her arms and legs.
She says she was going to see someone who lived in a mobile home near East 12th Street in Okmulgee, and a dog was walking around.
“I thought he was home, but he wasn’t. But I felt like that dog was going to run up behind me and attacked me, so I couldn’t walk my bike in you know, so, I just stood there and waited for him, but he didn’t know where I was at,” said Scott.
The attack was so traumatic for her that she says it’s still hard to talk or even think about.
“Sometimes I, when I wake up, and it’s just a dream, no,” said Scott.
Okmulgee police say the dogs were secured in the trailer, but it was broken into, which may have been why the dogs got outside.
Police say the owner of the dogs was in jail at the time of the attack, and the person taking care of them was ticketed.
One of the dogs was killed after the attack.
Months in the Hospital
When she first woke up from surgery and saw that both of her legs and arms were removed, she didn’t think she was going to survive, but she had a reason to keep pushing through.
“My son, I want to see him grow up in school,” said Scott.
She got to go home this week.
“It was a long three months,” said Scott.
Working for independence
Three days a week, Janelle Scott is working hard to recover, focusing on core, shoulder, and hip exercises so she can sit up, scoot around, and roll on her own to regain some of the independence she lost.
She’s learning how to use her body in a completely new way.
“I’m having fun,” said Scott.
“We’re working balance and the core muscles, just getting used to the change in the weight,” Dr. Johnathan Barber, her physical therapist, said.
Scott will continue at-home physical therapy for at least three months.
She’s hoping to get a prosthesis soon, and doctors say it will take years of therapy for her to be able to use them fully. Her mother says she could get a prosthetic for one of her arms in the next few weeks.
Finding the good
She’s grateful to still be here, and she’s learned a lot about herself along the way.
“I know I’m a lot stronger than I thought I was; I have a purpose, I don’t know it yet, I don’t know why, but I’ll find it one of these days,” said Scott.
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Sheer insanity, to have lost ALL 4 LIMBS to these sweet, gentle, misunderstood velvet hippos. Despite this profound loss, she sounds like an absolute warrior.
Well she visited the neighborhood they happened to be in, she shouldn’t have provoked them like that.
Well I’m sure a Chihuahua attack could’ve been just as bad. All dogs bite. /s
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She's not the only one! Kleenex Waltman did too!
Yeah she walked in on their territory so she deserved to lose all 4 limbs /sarcasm.
Dismemberment, apparently, ranks right up there with parking violations.
It's outrageous. It makes me irrationally angry.
Amazing woman. She is a warrior. It is so tragic and preventable.
Insanity
Honestly incredible that she's so positive and doing so well. I cannot imagine the horror she's been through.
While unrelated to pitbulls, I have a relative who was in an accident that caused him to lose one leg at the hip and one arm at the shoulder so I have seen how insanely difficult the recovery and adjustment is even for half of what she's dealing with.
I don't think there's any way I'd be able to come across with such strength and positivity, even for a quote in an article.
I was surprised she wasn't in hospital for much longer than three months!
I can't imagine waking up to find you'd lost all your limbs; one or two would be devastating but all four is incomprehensibly awful.
This woman is truly a warrior! To go from being a whole person to losing all four limbs in the space of three short months is unfathomable! I am in awe of her strength!! I know the one dog didn't survive the attack, is it too much to hope for that the other monster involved in the attack is pushing up daisies as well? The owner of the dogs was in jail at the time of the attack. Qu'elle surprise. Garbage dogs for garbage people.
IIRC a few posts back her mother was saying that she didn’t want to live. I am very happy to see that she has regained the desire to live and overcome this awfulness to the extent possible.
I tried to post this but messed up!
What irked me is that the article didn’t name that the dogs were two pitbulls.
I donate to her gofundme and get updates, it PMO it wasn’t mentioned.
Copy of text post for attack logging purposes: OKMULGEE, Okla. - Janelle Scott faces years of therapy and adaptation as she begins her journey with prosthetics and regaining independence.
An Okmulgee woman who lost both her arms and legs in a dog attack is back home after three months in the hospital.
What happened
Janelle Scott, who goes by Nellie, was attacked by dogs in early September and had nearly a dozen surgeries that left her without her arms and legs.
She says she was going to see someone who lived in a mobile home near East 12th Street in Okmulgee, and a dog was walking around.
“I thought he was home, but he wasn’t. But I felt like that dog was going to run up behind me and attacked me, so I couldn’t walk my bike in you know, so, I just stood there and waited for him, but he didn’t know where I was at,” said Scott.
The attack was so traumatic for her that she says it’s still hard to talk or even think about.
“Sometimes I, when I wake up, and it’s just a dream, no,” said Scott.
Okmulgee police say the dogs were secured in the trailer, but it was broken into, which may have been why the dogs got outside.
Police say the owner of the dogs was in jail at the time of the attack, and the person taking care of them was ticketed.
One of the dogs was killed after the attack.
Months in the Hospital
When she first woke up from surgery and saw that both of her legs and arms were removed, she didn’t think she was going to survive, but she had a reason to keep pushing through.
“My son, I want to see him grow up in school,” said Scott.
She got to go home this week.
“It was a long three months,” said Scott.
Working for independence
Three days a week, Janelle Scott is working hard to recover, focusing on core, shoulder, and hip exercises so she can sit up, scoot around, and roll on her own to regain some of the independence she lost.
She’s learning how to use her body in a completely new way.
“I’m having fun,” said Scott.
“We’re working balance and the core muscles, just getting used to the change in the weight,” Dr. Johnathan Barber, her physical therapist, said.
Scott will continue at-home physical therapy for at least three months.
She’s hoping to get a prosthesis soon, and doctors say it will take years of therapy for her to be able to use them fully. Her mother says she could get a prosthetic for one of her arms in the next few weeks.
Finding the good
She’s grateful to still be here, and she’s learned a lot about herself along the way.
“I know I’m a lot stronger than I thought I was; I have a purpose, I don’t know it yet, I don’t know why, but I’ll find it one of these days,” said Scott.
Support
The family has set up a GoFundMe here.
https://www.newson6.com/tulsa-oklahoma-news/woman-who-lost-limbs-in-dog-attack-returns-home-after-3-months
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The carer for the dogs was only ticketed? Pit lovers rule OK. Godforsaken place.
Why were the other dogs in the attack not BE?
She is so fucking lucky to be alive and to have not bled out.
I hope her road to therapy is easy and I hope she is a candidate for prosthetics
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Shes's "lucky" in that that her arms weren't amputated all the way to her shoulder, i remember the woman who lost both their arms, prosthetics were dificult because they had to amputate her entire arms.