A baby girl named Delaney pulled a hot Fry Daddy onto herself, resulting in serious burns.
We spoke to a Corporate Relations spokesperson at Parkland Hospital in Dallas and confirmed that Delaney Parrish had indeed been a patient of that institution in 2001, staying 'a month or two.' She had been involved in an accident resulting in severe burns.The Parrish family's web diary details Delaney's progress along the road to recovery. The diary entries began on 4 May 2001 and did not specifically mention that a Fry Daddy was involved in her accident (a 'Fry Daddy' is a deep fryer made by Presto), but clearly a baby (born 1 September 2000) had been grievously burned, and her life was hanging in the balance during those first dark days.The babe was in the hospital for a month and endured numerous surgeries and skin grafts. She was sent home on 2 June 2001 and has since had more surgeries and skin grafts. Hers has been a long and difficult path, but her recovery has been tremendous.According to the web diary, Delaney did have part of her left pinky (down to the knuckle) and the tip of her ring finger removed on 11 May 2001, and on 19 May the ring finger was wholly amputated. As of early 2005, Delaney was facing additional surgery to further repair and reconstruct her injured hand, but otherwise she was doing well. The latest entry from Baby Delaney's web diary notes:She is doing very well. She's a little social bug at school. We have had a couple of situations where she said her hand was ugly and she didn't want it anymore. When I explain that it is a part of who she is and it will never go away she cries because she thought when she got older it would disappear. I'm sure we are going to go through many more situations like that as time goes by. She will be having surgery this summer on her left hand to get rid of the webbing between her fingers and a skin release on her right arm. They did tell me last visit that later on they will be able to take her toenails and implant them on her fingers that are partially amputated so she can have nails. I thought that was pretty interesting.Although continued prayers and good wishes for this youngster wouldn't be unwelcome, it needs be stressed the child is more than four years past the point of being in danger. Whereas the e-mailed exhortation says, 'the next two or three days will decide,' those considering adding Delaney to their prayers and entreating others to do the same should keep in mind that those 'two or three days' were back in April/May 2001.Barbara 'the crisis is past' MikkelsonAdditional information: Baby Delaney web diary
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