Something went horribly wrong when she hit the water 😢

Lottie Margot

Watch Something went horribly wrong when she hit the water 😢 - Lottie Margot on Dailymotion

Transcript

00:00I mean, I thought I was a goner. I just remember thinking, I'm not ready to die.

00:05A week after my 22nd birthday, I went to a little get-together, and I was hanging out with my friends at a house I'd never been to.

00:13I got up from the deck where we were all talking, and I dove in the pool.

00:18Little did she know that one little dive would completely change the way she lived her life.

00:23I had had a couple drinks, so I was feeling confident in my diving abilities.

00:26But this was probably the 10th time I've dove in my life. I never, ever died. I'm usually scared of it.

00:33And I felt a pop in my neck, and a dull pain shot through my body.

00:39But it was something else that had happened to her body that made her realize how dire the situation was.

00:43But I was kind of distracted by the fact that I was floating at the top, face down, and I couldn't move.

00:50I couldn't turn my body. I couldn't turn my head.

00:53I was face down in the water, fully aware, not able to breathe. So I just hunkered down and held my breath.

00:59She had gone all by herself, so she prayed someone would notice her and save her.

01:04I sat there for like 30 seconds, and for the last 10 seconds, I mean, I thought I was a goner.

01:09I just remember thinking, I'm not ready to die.

01:13Luckily, someone had caught on and came to her rescue.

01:15I felt someone kind of grab my arm, and I was praying that they would pull me over.

01:19And they turned me over, and I was like, and I was breathing, and I was alive, and I was so happy.

01:24And they pulled me over to the side of the pool, and they're like, what happened?

01:28After being rescued, she realized the extent of her injuries.

01:31Do you feel this? No.

01:34Do you feel this? No.

01:36Do you feel this? No.

01:38Everyone got quiet, because we all kind of realized in that moment what I had done.

01:43That's when I started crying.

01:44They all jumped into action to save her life.

01:47Fortunately, she had the perfect person living nearby.

01:51They called 911, and they called their neighbor, who happened to be a neurosurgeon.

01:55She came and stabilized my neck.

01:57She called my mom.

01:59I got in the ambulance, got to the ER.

02:01My trauma in the neck was making my jaw shake, and I remember I could barely talk.

02:05My breathing started to slow and getting really heavy, because I lost part of my lung capacity.

02:12My lungs were starting to fail.

02:13Quickly, she was taken for immediate surgery to try to save her life.

02:17The surgery that I had was to fuse my C6 to my C4, because I broke my C5.

02:25I put a net around C6 and C4 and fused it to stabilize it.

02:28I had a C collar when I woke up, and I was in excruciating pain.

02:33I was on so many pain meds and sedatives, it didn't help anything.

02:38She's still traumatized by her 21-day stay in the ICU.

02:41I developed a stage 4 pressure wound.

02:43I got pressure on my tailbone, my sacrum.

02:46The blood wasn't there for so long that it went down to the bone.

02:49I remember begging people to help me, because I was just in so much pain.

02:54It was hard and miserable and scary and lonely.

02:58My brain blocked out some stuff.

Category

Transcript

Be the first to comment

Recommended