'I felt something, and I just let my body go, and I thought my legs, my intestines, and my body's next,' Lana Batochir said.
She remembers everything, and for the first time a woman is speaking about the tragic moment in Lake Mighigan's popular Playpen area,"I felt something, and I just let my body go, and I thought my legs, my intestines, and my body's next. So I thought, 'this is how I die,' and I had given up," Lana Batochir said., 10 inches below her knees.
Batochir said she is on medication, dealing with excruciating pain, but to have the chance to hug her two children again helps her deal with it.in the playpen on Saturday"I just thought I was going to die," she said."I have to accept that I have no legs anymore." "My back was turned, and we were pulling our raft closer to the boat through the rope we had attached," she said.
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