Taylor Haynes Shares Health Struggle After Injury

Today show star Taylor Haynes has spoken out about the ongoing health complications after a crab crushed her finger live on-air. 

The weather presenter, 23, was taking viewers on a tour of the Fish Markets in Glebe when she stopped at a tank filled with live

Taylor told Stellar's Something To Talk About podcast that she was seriously injured in the incident and is currently undergoing rehab to fully restore feeling in her finger.

'I have a thing called a neuroma. Because my finger was severely crushed by the crab, it has crushed all the nerves. I've lost feeling and sensation. I'm doing rehab every week to get movement back into it, and feeling and memory,' she began. 

'I'm seeing a hand surgeon next week to chat further on how we manage this, whether it will take six to 12 months, or we bite the [bullet] and get an operation to reconstruct the nerves.'

She added that while she managed to maintain her composure during the live cross on April 3, she was actually panicking on the inside and worried about losing her finger.

'I just screamed and said "Please, I don't want to lose a finger." It still shakes me talking about it,' Taylor said. 

She added that the animal handler was unable to free her finger by hand so her cameraman had to get some large tongs to remove the crab's grip.

'We were getting everything to try to separate those claws. My cameraman went running and found these big tongs that were 30cm long that you [use to] pull crabs out of the tank. That finally separated the crab from my finger,' she said.

Taylor finished by saying that she often received messages from viewers joking that she got off 'lightly' because the crab didn't sever her finger.

'Some of them were fingerless and said, "I didn’t even have half the size of crab as yours that took three of my fingers off." I'm extremely lucky,' Taylor reflected. 

During the segment last month, a worker emerged with a giant crab and placed it in her arms,

Unfortunately things quickly went pear shaped when the crab retaliated by grabbing her finger with its huge pincer. 

Taylor recoiled in pain, almost dropping the crab in the process.