By Bob Jones
News Channel 5
NORTON, Ohio — Monica Thayer spent 17 days at Akron General Hospital after her scalp was torn from her head inside of a Barberton plant where she worked for less than a week.
On Wednesday, the 25-year-old woman from Norton returned home where she continues to count her blessings despite a horrific accident that resulted in multiple skin grafts.
“I still have a life. I still have fully functioning limbs. My brain did not have any damage done. My spinal cord did not have any damage done. I’m comfortable with the fact that I’m going to have to buy wigs for the rest of my life, and that kind of thing, because you can buy wigs. You can’t buy a life,” Thayer said.