After an hour, authorities managed to get her free as they had to turn the power off on the power line, as she recalled: “He just grabbed my leg and had to take it out of the wire and you just watch my body lifelessly fall on the stretcher.”
They had to get her bone back too, as she was later told that she screamed while being saved, but was in silence as soon as she hit the stretcher.
“I think it’s hard for me to wrap my mind around it, I can’t remember if I said it in my mind or actually said it,” she began to explain.
“But I remember feeling like saying ‘thank you for trying to save my life but this is it for me’, and I remember like closing my eyes and just, done.”
Her father had arrived to the scene of the accident, getting on his knees to ask God not to take his daughter from him, later kissing her on the forehead and blessing her, though medics told her father that she was not going to make it.
After being flown to the University of Utah, she discovered just how bad the damage was.
“I broke my femur, I broke my humerus bone, I broke my clavicle and then I have a brachial plexus injury, my leg was shredded pretty bad from that wire,” she explained, revealing that it needed to be amputated.
Doctors couldn’t save her leg, going through five amputations to try and salvage as much as they could, trying to leave as much of the leg as possible, as it would make it easier for her to walk and function with more leg.
“They tried taking it at my knee, like through my knee and this process is hard because my leg just kept rotting because the bone was broken so high up, that they just were like trying to keep as much as possible.