JASPER, Texas — The family of a Jasper County postal worker seriously injured after being attacked by a pair of dogs this week is asking for help paying for her medical bills.
Tamara Hartford, of Spurger, remains in critical condition at a Houston hospital where she has been through three surgeries according to a family friend.
A nephew of Hartford has started a GoFundMe to help raise money to go towards her medical bills.
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On Wednesday after one of Hartford’s surgeries to clean and close wounds as well as repair her crushed Adam’s apple she was able to answer questions by moving her head, her nephew, James LaFayette, wrote on the GoFundMe page.
She was still using a breathing tube on Thursday and doctors told her family then that her throat was doing much better LaFayette wrote on the GoFundMe page.
A Jasper County deputy is being credited with saving her life after hearing her screams at about 11 a.m. Tuesday morning while he was at his home.
The deputy, Daniel Coons, ran towards the shouting and found Hartford on the ground being attacked by two dogs near the 300 block of County Road 110A, according to a news release from the Jasper County Sheriff's Office.
Coons shot one of the dogs and, when the other dog charged at him, he shot the other dog. Both of the dogs were killed.
The deputy was able to apply a tourniquet to Hartford's right arm and bandage her leg.
She was taken by ambulance to Jasper Memorial Hospital and then flown to a Houston hospital, according to the sheriff's office.