Mary Wilson was drying her shoulder length locks when a freak accident struck, to save her life, docs amputated her hand.

"I [fell] on top of the dryer, like it was under me, and I was in a weird, contorted placement and the dryer was still running,” the woman recalled Kimberlee Speakman is a digital writer at PEOPLE.

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