A girl in Perth, Australia, was told she could lose her thumb after contracting a horrific bacterial infection during a manicure.
Sue, 48, has been living with burning pain in her thumb for the past two years after contracting staph while getting a manicure at a beauty salon in Perth.
She claims the technician mistook her bare nails for acrylics and commenced sanding them with a tool before soaking them in acetone.
![An Australian woman claims a bad manicure could cost her her thumb.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/manicure-bone-eating-bacteria3.jpg?w=1024)
![X-ray of the thumb.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/manicure-bone-eating-bacteria1.jpg?w=768)
“I told them they were my real nails, but they kept grinding them,” she told Nine News.
The 48-year-old later spent five days in hospital after discovering that a chunk of her thumb bone would need to be removed.
He says he still lives with persistent throbbing and burning pain in his thumb.
“It really pulses and there isn’t any getting away from it,” she told Nine News.
![The woman who goes by Sue spent five days in hospital after discovering that a piece of her thumb bone would need to be removed.](https://nypost.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2022/12/manicure-bone-eating-bacteria2.jpg)
Now she has decided to take legal motion against the nail salon for failing to comply with “hygiene standards”.
“You would not go to a grimy dentist, so why would you go to a grimy office?” she said.