FORT WORTH, Texas -- A Texas paraplegic loved getting her monthly pedicure -- until the last one allegedly led to her death.
Kimberly Kay Jackson's family is suing the Fort Worth salon where they say the woman developed an infected wound after her heel was cut with a pumice stone.
The family's lawyer says the 46-year-old woman died seven months later of a heart attack triggered by a staph infection.
The suit says Angel Nails did not follow state regulations for disinfecting various instruments and the whirlpool used for the pedicure.
One Texas cosmetologist said customers need to carefully examine salons and make sure instruments are new or sterilized. Jennifer Davis said "if it's not clean and shiny like at the dentist's office, don't stay."
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quote:Originally posted by nylonfootsniffer: Not sure I buy that one. Sounds like someone's family is just looking to cash in.
it's unfortunately all too common to get a staph infection from a nail salon. not many lead to death but you have to be really careful. i always do my own toes =x
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One of my friends gets her toes done at a salon all the time but as a precaution she brings her own clippers and files. Hepatitis is also an all too real possibility.
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