ELDORADO HILLS -
Here's a Happy Thanksgiving story for you...
An Eldorado Hills girl wants to thank her dermatologist for giving her a new face.
A pit bull mauled her four months ago.
Gratitude is the attitude for 9-year old, Kelsey Grieco who can now looki in the mirror and like what she sees staring right back at her.
Kelsey never thought a day of playing at her friend's house would end with her in a hospital bed.
"I was trying to help her get the leash untangled from it's leg and then it just bit me."
Kelsey was bit on the left eye by a pitbull.
The dog's vicious bite left a red, puffy scar.
"Some kids kept picking on me because it was puffed up and stuff."
She says, "I didn't like it so I would hide my face with a hat."
Kelsey's mom, Kimberly knew something needed to be done to get rid of the scar.
She says, "It was awful. I cried everytime that I looked at her. The scar tissue that grew out was really hideous."
That's when she decided to take her daughter to Dr. Tim Rosio at "Anew Skin" Surgicenter.
"We had to cut the skin and make a small series of intricate z-shape flaps of skin and fit them together like puzzle pieces."
Now, Kelsey says she has reason to smile again.
"I'm really thankful that he fixed my eye for me. Now they don't make fun of me."
More than 4 million people get bitten by a dog every year and 77 percent of the time it's on their face.
Dr. Rosio also repairs children's scars all over the world. It's part of his "Heal One Wound Foundation."
An Eldorado Hills girl wants to thank her dermatologist for giving her a new face.
A pit bull mauled her four months ago.
Gratitude is the attitude for 9-year old, Kelsey Grieco who can now looki in the mirror and like what she sees staring right back at her.
Kelsey never thought a day of playing at her friend's house would end with her in a hospital bed.
"I was trying to help her get the leash untangled from it's leg and then it just bit me."
Kelsey was bit on the left eye by a pitbull.
The dog's vicious bite left a red, puffy scar.
"Some kids kept picking on me because it was puffed up and stuff."
She says, "I didn't like it so I would hide my face with a hat."
Kelsey's mom, Kimberly knew something needed to be done to get rid of the scar.
She says, "It was awful. I cried everytime that I looked at her. The scar tissue that grew out was really hideous."
That's when she decided to take her daughter to Dr. Tim Rosio at "Anew Skin" Surgicenter.
"We had to cut the skin and make a small series of intricate z-shape flaps of skin and fit them together like puzzle pieces."
Now, Kelsey says she has reason to smile again.
"I'm really thankful that he fixed my eye for me. Now they don't make fun of me."
More than 4 million people get bitten by a dog every year and 77 percent of the time it's on their face.
Dr. Rosio also repairs children's scars all over the world. It's part of his "Heal One Wound Foundation."
