DOGSBITE.ORG – On March 17, 2024, three pit bulls viciously attacked Jerod Welker, 36, as he walked through a park. The dogs ripped off his clothes, tore off part of his scalp, and inflicted lacerations and crush injuries all over his body.
The documentary short starts with dramatic police bodycam footage as officers arrive at the scene.
They find Welker lying face down in the grass, naked, and covered in wounds. Dr. Dan Liesen later states, “It looked like you were whipped with some type of Roman whip.”
The names of the three attacking pit bulls, all female, were, “Moneyback Joe,” the title of this documentary short, “Bailey” and “Basely.”
Welker was transported to Blessing Hospital, where he was hospitalized for five days and spent three days on a ventilator. In the documentary, Welker retraces what happed on the day of the attack. He interviews Dr. Liesen and the ER practitioner, who treated his injuries.
“We were really worried about your left arm,” Dr. Liesen said, and if it was getting enough blood flow. “We were deciding whether or not to open your arm up to allow the fluid to weep out,” so that you could keep your left arm.
Excerpts: Dan Liesen, MD
“When we evaluated you, you were just mauled from head to toe. The attack appeared to occur where most of the injuries were kind of on the skin and then into the deep soft tissues.
“Skin lacerations simply in and of themselves usually don’t cause life-threatening problems if you’re getting bit, but when you have a crush injury associated with it, now you’re injuring all of the soft tissues underneath of it. You’re causing this inflammation and swelling everywhere in the body, and you’re damaging the tissues as well.
“So, the skin over your head, where your hair attached into, that scalp was just multiple lacerations … READ MORE.
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