Woman whose leg was amputated in boating accident in Chicago's 'Playpen' neighborhood knows she is 'dying' and will drown if husband does not pull her out I said I was.
Lana, her 34-year-old mother of two young children, left her Batchill with her husband on August 13 when tragedy struck her friend's family. I went out on the boat.
Batochir was on a floating raft with another woman when her boat, a nearby rental, broke down while at anchor, according to the Illinois Department of Natural Resources.
After the windlass malfunctioned, the rental boat began drifting, officials said. Later, the captain, a 70-year-old man, tried to turn the boat over and fix it, but it sucked up the floating raft.
Two women were sucked into the boat's prop her wash and seriously injured.
"It all happened so quickly," Batshir wrote on page GoFundMe trying to raise $250,000 for medical expenses.
She said the boat's propeller hit her and she felt unimaginable pain.
"I thought I was going to die. For seconds that felt like minutes, my life was over." I started drowning and couldn't swim," she said.
The boat's propeller cut off both of her legs and tried to raise her head above the water before her husband rescued her.
"I felt myself drifting like an object. I knew I was going to die," she added.
"As I was being towed by a boat, I glanced at my legs and realized they were both missing."
Following the incident, she went to Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
"It is still a nightmare."
With the help of a physiotherapist," he added, he would undergo rehabilitation over the next few months. That's why I turned to crowdfunding. She has raised approximately $52,000 to date.
"This tragedy is not going to break me!" she wrote on her GoFundMe page.
