Jayne Hardman, 56, from Redditch, England, was accidentally struck by CeCe, her mastiff, in 2012. It was just a headbutt while they were playing. But the swelling and nosebleeds that followed never healed.
It took nearly two years of tests to reach the diagnosis: granulomatosis with polyangiitis, an autoimmune disease so rare that she believes she is the only known person to have lost her nose because of it. By 2017, the damage was total. Her nose had collapsed onto her own face, and doctors had no choice but to remove it.
For nearly two years, she lived without a nose, until she received her first magnetically attached prosthesis. Today, she has an entire collection that she swaps depending on the day, and she uses her story so that others do not ignore signs she almost overlooked.
